desire for more risk protection and a belief that payments from ACRE would exceed the value of the direct payments they had … production for their gross income, and were more likely to use other risk management tools such as crop insurance and pre …-harvest pricing.  In general, farmers who enrolled in ACRE were more concerned about controlling financial risk in their farming …

measuring efficiency we employed market data, measuring returns and risk (calculated in different ways) in order to build a new …

A panel regression gives evidence that more flexibility in Asian exchange rates reduces risk associated with bank … borrowing abroad, but deviations from mean exchange rates, and from the renminbi, increase risk. Since the exchange rate regime …

This paper estimates the effects of short and long haul volatility (or risk) in monthly Japanese tourist arrivals to … Taiwan and New Zealand, respectively. In order to model appropriately the volatilities of international tourist arrivals, we … volatility estimates for the monthly growth in Japanese tourists to New Zealand and Taiwan are different, and indicate that the …

-ignorance when the DM is risk- and uncertainty-averse. For the case of logarithmic utility, we work out the explicit solutions of the … view of numerical method, the effects of the risk and the uncertainty on the above three parameters are analyzed. All the …

licensee and franchisee are different. It is proposed to include in the model of royalty calculation the risk reduction …

appropriate risk compensation. I present a model of a segmented labor market, and describe how women's autonomy in choosing a … risks to their health or safety, and more able to charge a high-risk premium when they do. In addition, women who enjoy more …

preferences for risky situations is that two components of risk aversion may be identified, decreasing marginal value and regret …

Expected utility theory is widely acknowledged to be a rational approach to making decisions involving risk. Yet the … methodology gives no explicit role to measures of risk and return. In this paper we identify those families of utility functions … that are compatible with a risk-return interpretation. From these families we deduce utility-compatible measures of risk. …

risk aversion is not sufficient for this property to hold: we identify the small class of utility functions for which it … does. We show how the property leads naturally to a measure of risk. The results of this paper apply equally well to …