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Natural Disasters and Agriculture: Individual Risk Preferences towards Flooding
Sauer, Johannes - 2011
. It suggest a microeconometric method for measuring flooding related risk preferences of affectedindividuals. The method …-experimental approach to measure differences in the risk attitudes of farmers located in highflooding risk areas versus farmers located in … low flooding risk areas is followed. Changes in flooding risk relatedbehaviour over time is analysed and marginal effects …
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Publics, risk communication and the social amplification of risk
In: The social contours of risk. 2005
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Strategic people management of coal mining firms in Central Queensland
Zheng, C; Rolfe, J; Di Milia, L; Bretherton, P - 2007
Purpose ? This paper aims to propose a conceptual framework to explore the link between strategic human resource management (SHRM) and firm performance of the coal mining companies in Central Queensland (CQ), Australia. Design/methodology/approach ? The paper reviews literature relating to the...
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Corporate Governance and Investor Reactions to Seasoned Equity Offerings
Huang, Rongbing; Tompkins, James G - 2009
We study the role of corporate governance in abnormal returns around announcements of seasoned equity offerings (SEOs) by publicly traded U. S. firms from 2001 - 2004. We find that investors react more positively for firms in which different people hold the CEO and board chairman positions. We...
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Effiziente Reduktion des Produktionsrisikos im Ackerbau durch Ertragsversicherungen
Gunnar Breustedt - 2004
steigern. Eine Divergenz im systemischen Risiko kann zu einer Divergenz im Versicherungsangebot führen. Eine öffentliche …­kosten als Hofertragsversicherungen. Letztere können aber, abhängig von den Selbstbeteiligungen, das Risiko der Landwirte stärker …
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Selling and Leasing Software with Network Externality
Zhang, Jennifer; Seidmann, Abraham - University of Toledo; University of Rochester - 2006
Previous studies suggested that a monopoly durable goods seller can useleasing to effectively avoid the time-inconsistent problem raised byCoase Conjecture. This paper extends those previous works by examiningthe monopoly seller's selling and leasing strategy for a special type ofdurable good...
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Operational risk assessment of chemical industries by exploiting accident databases
Meel, A.; O'Neill, L. M; Levin, J. H; Seider, Warren D.; … - 2007
history and worst-case data from RMP*Info. Risk Analysis, 23(5), 865–881.] summarize the accident frequencies and severities …. Systematic analyses of the databases also help to avoid future accidents, thereby reducing the risk.More specifically, this paper … estimate the capital at risk within an industry utilizing the frequency and loss-severity distributions. …
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Perspectives on Firm Decision Making During Risky Technology Acquisitions
Powell, Adam C. - 2011
A novel survey dataset on computed tomography (CT) machine acquisition is used to explore which theories best answer two questions from the decision making literature. First, what determines how much uncertainty a firm has when investing in updated technology? Second, what determines the value...
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Better Safe than Sorry: Precautionary Reasoning and Implied Dominance in Risky Decisions
DeKay, Michael L.; Patiño-Echeverri, Dalia; Fischbeck, … - 2005
In four studies, student and nonstudent participants evaluated the possible outcomes of binary decisions involving health, safety, and environmental risks (e.g., whether to issue a dam-failure evacuation order). Many participants indicated that false positives (e.g., evacuation, but no dam...
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Better Safe than Sorry: Precautionary Reasoning and Implied Dominance in Risky Decisions
DeKay, Michael L.; Patino-Echeverri, Dalia; Fischbeck, … - 2008
In four studies, student and nonstudent participants evaluated the possible outcomes of binary decisions involving health, safety, and environmental risks (e.g., whether to issue a dam-failure evacuation order). Many participants indicated that false positives (e.g., evacuation, but no dam...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009441300