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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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14.661 Labor Economics I, Fall 2006
Pischke, Jorn-Steffen; Angrist, Joshua - 2006
Neoclassical analysis of the labor market and its institutions. A systematic development of the theory of labor supply …
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Characterizing core stability with fuzzy games
Shellshear, Evan - 2009
This paper investigates core stability of cooperative, TU games via a fuzzy extension of the totally balanced cover of a TU game. The stability of the core of the fuzzy extension of a game, the concave extension, is shown to reflect the core stability of the original game and vice versa....
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Asymmetrische Information, Beteiligungsfinanzierung und drohende Überschuldung
Braun, Thomas - 2005
Der vorliegende Beitrag befasst sich mit dem Zusammenwirken von zwei externen Effekten, die jeweils für sich eine effiziente Kapitalallokation behindern können.Zum Einen geht es darum, dass unter Umständen an sich Erfolg versprechende Investitionsgelegenheiten nur deswegen nicht realisiert...
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Privacy Patterns for Online Interactions
Cranor, Lorrie Faith; Romanowsky, Sasha; Hong, Jason; … - 2006
A proper security architecture is an essential part of implementing robust and reliable networked applications. Security patterns have shown how reoccurring problems can be best solved with proven solutions. However, while they are critical for ensuring the confidentiality, integrity and...
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On the optimal design of income support and agri-environmental regulation
Bontems, Philippe - 2008
In this paper, we develop a model of regulation for a set of heterogenous farmers whose production yields to environmental externalities. The goal of the regulator is first to offer some income support depending on collective preferences towards income redistribution and second to internalize...
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Why Do Investors React Negatively to Seasoned Equity Offerings?
Kim, E. Han - 2006
The average investor reaction is neutral to primary offerings by firms with managerial incentives closely tied to the shareholder value. Investors react negatively (1) when there are insufficient managerial ownership stakes to deter misuse of SEO proceeds and (2) when there are negative signals...
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Essays on Procurement with Information Asymmetry.
Hu, Bin - 2011
Sourcing, once seen as a tactical function of vertically integrated firms, has today become strategic for firms that now rely on extensive, vertically disintegrated supply chains. Vertical disintegration leads to complex relationships within a supply chain; for example, dependence between firms...
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Supply Risks and Asymmetric Information.
Yang, Zhibin - 2009
In the extant supply-risk management literature, most research assumes the manufacturer is as knowledgeable about … supply disruption risk as its suppliers. In practice, however, a supplier often has better information about its likelihood … of experiencing a disruption than the manufacturer it serves. This dissertation studies the manufacturer's supply risk …
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