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Portfolio allocation, income uncertainty and households' flight from risk
Brown, Sarah; Gray, Daniel; Harris, Mark N.; Spencer, … - 2016
Analysing the US Panel Study of Income Dynamics, we present a new empirical method to investigate the extent to which households reduce their financial risk exposure when confronted with background risk. Our novel modelling approach - termed a deflated fractional ordered probit model -...
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Rainfall shocks and risk aversion : evidence from Southeast Asia
Liebenehm, Sabine; Degener, Nele; Strobl, Eric - 2018
rainfall data for rural Thailand and Vietnam. Our econometric analysis shows that temporal variability in risk attitudes is … driven by rainfall shocks. Both severe shortages and excesses appear to increase individuals' risk aversion. Contrary to … composition of non-farmers and by farmers' ability to mitigate rainfall shocks. Our findings have potentially important …
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Basis risk in the pasture, rangeland, and forage insurance program : evidence from California
Keller, James B.; Saitone, Tina L. - In: American journal of agricultural economics 104 (2022) 4, pp. 1203-1223
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Climate change and risk scenario in Bangladesh
Rahman, Mohammad Chhiddikur; Rahaman, Md Shajedur; … - In: Asia-Pacific journal of regional science 7 (2023) 2, pp. 381-404
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Transgenic crops, production risk, and agrobiodiversity
Vijesh, Krishna; Qaim, Matin; Zilberman, David - 2014
Do transgenic crops cause agrobiodiversity erosion? We hypothesize that they increase productivity and reduce production risk and may therefore reduce farmer demand for on-farm varietal diversity, especially when only a few transgenic varieties are available. We also hypothesize that varietal...
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Transgenic Crops, Production Risk, and Agrobiodiversity
Krishna, Vijesh V.; Qaim, Matin; Zilberman, David - 2015
Do transgenic crops cause agrobiodiversity erosion? We hypothesize that they increase productivity and reduce production risk and may therefore reduce farmer demand for on-farm varietal diversity, especially when only a few transgenic varieties are available. We also hypothesize that varietal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014147914
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Issues in Endogenizing Relevant Systematic Risk in Islamic Sustainable Finance
Farooq, Mohammad Omar; Salim, Mohammed - 2021
Environment and climate change are generally considered a systemic risk, not as part of the systematic risk. The view of Islamic finance industry and institutions is no different. However, with greater awareness about the existential threat of climate crisis, there is call for treating it as...
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The globalization of climate change : amplification of climate-related physical risks through input-output linkages
Fahr, Stephan; Senner, Richard; Vismara, Andrea - 2024
While global supply chains have recently gained attention in the context of the Covid-related crisis as well as the war in Ukraine, their role in transmitting and amplifying climate-related physical risks across countries has received surprisingly little attention. To address this shortcoming,...
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Environmental Hazards and Risk Management in the Financial Sector : A Systematic Literature Review
Breitenstein, Miriam - 2020
We conduct a systematic literature review on environmental and climate related risk management in the financial sector. The systematic literature review identified a total of 36 relevant articles. A formal coding leads to the aggregation and classification of papers to three main categories that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012848409
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International Risk Sharing and Globalization
Pierucci, Eleonora - 2012
The main research question of this empirical work is whether or not globalization, in its various forms, has had an impact upon international risk sharing. The empirical literature so far has only investigated on one aspect of globalization: economic and financial integration. By decomposing...
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