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increased risk as perceived by utilities, banks and lessors and the unpredictability of those risks as perceived by insurance … or income benefits contemplated, or a credit agreement with a bank or other source of funds wherein the utility company … higher rate of return obtaining insurance; or some combination of DOE loan guarantee, lease and insurance. No attempt has …
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shocks at country and regional level. I compute insurance capacity using the Spanish Continuous Family Expenditure Survey …. I obtain that durable purchases are a source of insurance with respect to transitory shocks and the effect of family … skipping the imputation methods used by the previous literature to mitigate the signifi cant lack of income and consumption …
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Material resources affect the levels of mortality. In cross-sectional relationships income has been found to be … between national income per capita and life expectancy. Other studies (e.g., those reviewed in Cochrane et al., 1980) have … inversely related to the economic status of the family, but the measure of economic status used has not always been the same. In …
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that parimutuel insurance intrinsically leads to participants being underinsured due to basis risk. Although participants … will be underinsured, parimutuel insurance guarantees no underlying risk borne by the issuer. We also derive the equivalent … transaction costs of traditional insurance relative to HuRLOs. The actual transaction cost for traditional insurance is found to …
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This half-semester course discusses decision theory and topics in game theory. We present models of individual decision-making under certainty and uncertainty. Topics include preference orderings, expected utility, risk, stochastic dominance, supermodularity, monotone comparative statics,...
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Effekten, wie z.B. Stickstoffauswaschung, kann die Versicherung durch Produktionsausweitung negativ wirken. Als Substitut für … Pflanzenschutzmittel, wenn diese einen negativen externen Effekt haben, würde die Versicherung positiv wirken. Es ist aber zweifelhaft, ob … gerechtfertigt, wenn diese den Charakter öffentlicher Güter haben. So können Informationen, die die Versicherung für die …
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Today's insurance industry strongly emphasizes developing cost-effective hazard mitigation programs, increasing and … the Insurance Industry.'' Presentations were made by insurance company representatives, insurance trade groups, government … discuss how energy efficiency and renewable technologies can contribute to reducing insurance losses. …
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The following subjects are included: a geothermal resource overview, the evolution of the current Texas geopressured-geothermal institutional structure, project evaluation with uncertainty and the structure of incentives, the natural gas industry, the electric utility industry, potential...
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cleanrooms, which is a cross-cutting market segment known to have high reliability requirements. Finally, we present insurance …
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in the cost of non-renewable energy (NRE), and the option or insurance value of deploying RE if and when NRE costs rise …-making process. An illustrative example indicates how options expose both the insurance and timing values inherent in a simplified RE …
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