Why was risk management not effective in preventing financial institutions from bubbles in the past? 1. Because the emerge of the bubbles were not recognized at all. 2. Because risk managers did not have sufficient authority to stop the nonsense....

Eine der größten Herausforderungen bei der Bewertung vonVersicherungsunternehmen liegt in der Einschätzung, wie dieverschiedenen Versicherungsgruppen zu bewerten sind. Die entscheidende Frage lautet, bis zu welchem Grad sich die Stärkenoder Schwächen von verbundenen Unternehmen ggf. auf die...

This study investigates changes in Australian urban-rural suicide differentials over time in the context of overall declines in (male) suicide in the late 1990s, and determines the extent to which differences in socio-economic status (SES) account for observed urban-rural trends. Suicide data...

This paper investigates the relationship between suicide rates and prevalence of mental disorder and suicide attempts, across socio-economic status (SES) groups based on area of residence. Australian suicide data (1996-1998) were analysed in conjunction with area-based prevalences of mental...