, social and ecological dimension of risk and coping capacity. We start with an existing multicriteria risk mapping approach …. The term risk is used here in a way that could be called a starting point view, looking at vulnerability without … of vulnerability. In doing so, we explore a way to differentiate coping capacity from flood risk in each of the …

This experimental study investigates insurance decisions in low-probability, high-loss risk situations. Results … individuals are risk averse with no specific threshold probability. Copyright Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2014 …

In this paper a risk-profitability approach is used to measure the performance of local and foreign commercial banks … be different risk measures of banks. …

, and political risk affect the performance, risk-taking behavior and compensation fees of mutual funds. Overall, the … results show strongly that legal conditions, culture, and political risk have robust differential effects on fees, performance … and risk-taking behavior of Islamic funds and conventional funds. We find that Islamic mutual funds in countries with …

virtually absent in labour economics text books. This paper documents the scope for risk, discusses the tough disentanglement of … heterogeneity and risk, surveys the analytical models, laments the absence of a good workhorse model and points out the challenges … worth tackling: document ex ante risk that investors face, develop a tractable and malleable analytical model and integrate …

contribution system is a target function of minimisation of the investment risk as the risk of insufficiency of net pension assets …