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The paper provides novel insights on the effect of a firm's risk management objective on the optimal design of risk transfer instruments. I analyze the interrelation between the structure of the optimal insurance contract and the firm's objective to minimize the required equity it has to hold to...
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Taking into account that it is in the nature of the modern corporat ion that risks are distributed over several agents, we discuss in this paper the organisational behaviour as it results from such dispersal of responsibilities for both the principal and the agent. We explore the hypothesis that...
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how the agent’s risk attitude affects his decisions. This “Threshold Theory” framework is based on a real options approach … influence the agent’s risk attitude. The theory’s predictions help to explain many anomalies that the standard expected utility … model cannot. Threshold Theory can also model behavior in contexts such as individual investor decisions, corporate …
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