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On shrimp, salt and security: livelihood risks and responses in South Bangladesh and East India
Vivekananda, Janani; Schilling, Janpeter; Mitra, Shreya; … - In: Environment, Development and Sustainability 16 (2014) 6, pp. 1141-1161
Bangladesh and India are among the world’s most populous but also most vulnerable countries to environmental risks. In addition to storms, sea-level rise, floods and droughts, local communities face a multitude of pre-existing and concomitant economic and socio-political risks. To understand...
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Analyses of Physical Data to Evaluate the Potential to Identify Class I Injection Well Fluid Migration Risk
Bloetscher, Frederick; Gao, Jie - In: Water Resources Management 28 (2014) 15, pp. 5283-5296
injecting treated wastewater to assess which create the greatest risk to migration potential. Prior studies have looked at the …
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Remittances, savings and return migration under uncertainty
Delpierre, Matthieu; Verheyden, Bertrand - In: IZA Journal of Migration 3 (2014) 1, pp. 1-43
Recent empirical evidence links migrant remittances, savings and return migration, and stresses the inaccuracy of return migration plans. This paper presents a model of endogenous remittances, savings and return decisions under uncertainty. In our framework, migrants make remittance and saving...
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Privilege and exclusion at the farmers market: findings from a survey of shoppers
Rice, Julie - In: Agriculture and Human Values 32 (2015) 1, pp. 21-29
Research consistently shows the typical farmers market shopper is a white, affluent, well-educated woman. While some research to date examining farmers markets discusses the exclusionary aspects of farmers markets, little has expounded on this portrait of the typical shopper. As a result of this...
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VALUING RISK TRADEOFFS AND VOLUNTARY INSECTICIDE REDUCTION
LOHR, Luanne; PARK, Timothy; HIGLEY, Leon - Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, … - 1996
Midwestern states in the U.S. to trade yield losses for environmental risk reduction by eliminating an insecticide application … and soybeans, to guarantee protection of eleven environmental goods from moderate insecticide risk. Uncertainty about …
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El teorema de la separación de Tobin: información del primer semestre de 2008 del mercado accionario colombiano
Gómez, José Gabriel Astaiza - In: REVISTA AD-MINISTER (2012)
El artículo muestra una situación especial en donde el portafolio surgido del teorema de la separación de Tobin no se encuentra en la frontera eficiente de Markowitz. El desarrollo del mismo inicia con una revisión del modelo de selección de carteras de Harry Markowitz seguido del teorema...
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Aproximación a las metodologías de estimación del costo de capital en los proyectos de inversión. El caso colombiano
B, John Díez; John M. Díez B.; Riaño, Sandra Gaitán - In: REVISTA AD-MINISTER (2011)
Con el objetivo de definir la forma de estimar teóricamente el costo de capital enColombia, se llevó a cabo una revisión de la literatura correspondiente en las bases dedatos electrónicas de las principales universidades del país. A partir de una revisiónde las prácticas metodológicas...
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Risk Taking and Information Aggregation in Groups
Bougheas, Spiros; Nieboerr, Jeroen; Sefton, Martin - Centre for Decision Research and Experimental Economics … - 2014
We report an experiment examining risk taking and information aggregation in groups. Group members come to the table … with an individual preference for a choice under risk, based on privately received information, and can share this … information with fellow group members. They then make a decision under risk on behalf of the group using a random dictatorship …
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To bet or not to bet? Decision-making under risk in non-human primates
Pelé, M.; Broihanne, M.; Thierry, B.; Call, J.; Dufour, V. - In: Journal of Risk and Uncertainty 49 (2014) 2, pp. 141-166
order stochastic dominance revealed that macaques were risk-prone whereas capuchins and orang-utans were risk-adverse. We … implemented mixture models and showed that attitudes towards risk and probabilities play complementary and different roles in the …
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The neural correlates of contractual risk and penalty framing
Ekins, W.; Brooks, Andrew; Berns, Gregory - In: Journal of Risk and Uncertainty 49 (2014) 2, pp. 125-140
<Para ID="Par1">Standard economic theory treats contractual risk the same as risk experienced in a lottery, but the … transfer of risk from principal to agent may change the perception of risk. Previous experimental studies have shown that … in a contract can determine the extent to which lottery risk and contractual risk are similar. We designed an experiment …
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