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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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A Product-Quality View of The Linder Hypothesis

Hallak, Juan Carlos - 2006

The Linder hypothesis states that countries of similar income per capita should trade more intensely with one another. This hypothesis has attracted substantial research over decades, but the empirical evidence has failed to provide consistent support for it. This paper shows that the reason for...

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Three essays on distribution channels and pricing strategy

Shi, Hongyan - 2011

This dissertation involves three essays, studying firms' decision-making on marketing mix variables. Specifically, the first essay (Chapter 2) studies the effects of distribution channels on firms' advertising content decision. In many markets, consumers may not have full information of product...

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The role of Producer Organizations in supply concentration and marketing: a comparison between European Countries in the fruit and vegetables sector

Camanzi, Luca; Malorgio, Giulio; Garcia Azcarate, T. - 2009

The Fruit and Vegetables (FV) sector has a relevant and increasing economic value in the EU, accountingfor about 20% of the total value of agricultural production; the Countries with higher significance are Greece, Spainand Italy (from 25% to 35%). Nevertheless the producers are negatively...

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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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