The experience of pregnancy is currently driven by the development of surveillance medicine focused on the monitoring of a wide range of risks. Research usually relies on binary categories opposing women accepting medical surveillance to those resisting it. Recent studies have however underlined...

Uncertainty shapes the trajectory of business cycles and remains a central research topic in Macroeconomics. When studying the impact of uncertainty on the economy, economists use different uncertainty measures. While all indicators approximate uncertainty along some certain dimension, none of...

There is a multitude of measures to evaluate the tranches of a structured credit portfolio. One problem is that for each concept there exists a variety of different terms. Furthermore, some of these terms are used for different measures. For this reason, this paper aims to catalog the terms used...

This article examines the process by which vulnerability analysis takes place at the state level for State Hazard Mitigation Plans, as required by the Disaster Mitigation Act of 2000. The methods developed by the Center for Hazards Research and Policy Development at the University of Louisville...

This dissertation is based on the hypothesis that a third dimension, namely investmenttime horizon, can add value to the more conventional two-dimensional methodologyof assessing the relative risk and return attributes of various assets and portfolios inorder to enhance investment decisions.This...