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Risk, Death and Harm: The Normative Foundations of Risk Regulation

Adler, Matthew - University of Pennsylvania Law School

Is death a harm? Is the risk of death a harm? These questions lie at the foundations of risk regulation. Agencies that … first-party harm - a welfare setback to the person who dies - and often assume that being at risk of death is a distinct and … should be radically overhauled, since the third-party benefits of preventing premature death and the risk of premature death …

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Letter: Are Stocks the Best Investment for the Long Run?

Bodie, Zvi - In: The Economists' Voice 6 (2009) 3, pp. 3-3

risk, according to Zvi Bodie. …

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Risk and evolution

To, Ted - In: Economic Theory 13 (1999) 2, pp. 329-343

I examine a Knightian (1921) model of risk using a general equilibrium model of investment and trade. A population of … a whole behaves as if all agents were risk neutral. …

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Learning, diversification and the nature of risk

Menon, Nidhiya; Subramanian, Narayanan - In: Economic Theory 35 (2008) 1, pp. 117-145

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MONOPOLY AND CREDIBILITY IN ASSET MARKETS: AN EXAMPLE.

FUDENBERG, D.; LEVINE, D.K. - Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of … - 1989

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Profit-Sharing Versus Fixed-Payment Contracts: Evidence from the Motion- Pictures Industry.

Chisholm, D.C. - Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of … - 1994

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Insulations of pensions from Political Risk.

Diamond, P. - Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of … - 1994

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SPECULATIVE DYNAMICS.

CULTER, D.M.; POTERBA, J.M.; SUMMERS, L.H. - Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of … - 1990

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The Impact of News on Measures of Undiversifiable Risk: Evidence from the UK Stock Market.

Brooks, C.; Henry, O.T. - Department of Economics, Faculty of Business and Economics - 2000

The usual measure of the undiversifiable risk of a portfolio is its beta. Recent research has allowed beta estimates to …

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The convexity-cone approach to comparative risk and downside risk.

Modica, Salvatore; Scarsini, Marco - International Centre for Economic Research (ICER) - 2003

Based on Jewitt (1986) we try to find a characterization of comparative downside risk aversion and love. The desired … of downside risk love, but not in the case of downside risk aversion. A counterexample is provided. …

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