Thema Basel II / Risikomanagement.Inzwischen wurden an der Fachhochschule bereits mehrere Forschungsprojektezum Themenkreis …

This paper explores and analyzes farmers’risk perceptions, risk management instruments’ demandand usage in five Member … several sources of farms’ risk and incomeinstability, and at the actual means that farmers pursueto manage and face them. The … second area focuses onthe demand for risk management instruments.The paper’s objective is to determine the factors …

Intermountain West on the economic effectiveness of risk management alternatives in an agricultural operation. This research is not … meant to be an exhaustive comparison of every potential combination of alternatives and risk scenarios. Instead, specific … parameters such as farm size, crops grown, risk attitudes and risk management strategies are set to guide the research and offer …

. 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 …

, overall caseload acuity profiles, case length, and acuity differentials. Normal distributions and outliers were analyzed and …

the psychological literature to the effect that non-normality and outliers have on the power of a given statistical test …

outliers and influential observations. A variety of diagnostic methods are employed to identify these influential observations … methods utilised proved incapable of identifying or accommodating the gross outlier(s) in the data, the more successful …