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. 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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We study the effect of government assistance on bank risk taking. Using hand-collected data on bank applications for … government investment funds, we investigate the effect of both application approvals and denials. To distinguish banks? risk … banks approve riskier loans and shift investment portfolios toward riskier securities. However, this shift in risk occurs …
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A workshop on the "The Impact of the Crisis on SMEs" was held in the European Parliament in Brussels on 1 February 2010. This document contains the programme, presentations and proceedings of that workshop.
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Overall, household debt levels have risen sharply over the past decades in EU Member States. While certain levels of household debts can be beneficial, they can become problematic especially with a sudden, unexpected decrease of incomes or increase of expenditures. The current financial crisis...
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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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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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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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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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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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