setting up management strategies. Adopting the basic idea of spreading the risk from the field of finance, Modern Portfolio … Theory is used in the current analysis to quantify the risk associated with a range of irrigation investment strategies … and mitigating the associated risk and choosing more robust portfolios or management strategies. In this paper, a risk …

alternative technical measures for natural hazard mitigation as well as with the results of a risk-based evaluation. We conclude … that the willingness to pay for avalanche protection of forests is about the same range as the collective risk related to a …

alternative technical measures for natural hazard mitigation as well as with the results of a risk-based evaluation. We conclude … that the willingness to pay for avalanche protection of forests is about the same range as the collective risk related to a …

, familiarity with the domain, and performance. We find no overall sex differences in rates of competition when collapsing across …

levels of risk, and thereby unnecessarily stifle medical progress. To address this criticism, regulators are currently … developing more risk-adapted approaches to regulating research. A key feature of these approaches is that they aim to calibrate …

simultaneously. Our results suggest that loan growth significantly affects on balance-sheet loan performance with a lag of at least … two years. Additionally, loan performance is found to explain rating changes with a lag of four quarters. Importantly …

and variable properties of the incremental cost and the risk of fluctuations in the cost, and establishes a comprehensive … risk-based pricing model for long-distance transmission of large-scale wind power electricity. Gansu Province in China has … eliminate the volatility risk inherent in each simple allocation method, and the fixed and variable characteristics of the …

Although considerable progress has been made in understanding the determinants of risk perception and in identifying … the necessary components of effective food risk and benefit communication, this has not been matched with the development … of new media and web technologies, which may offer potential for improving food risk and benefit communication. First …

models in which the exogenous state variables follow conditionally linear stochastic processes displaying time-varying risk …. The first-order approximation is consistent with a conditionally linear model in which risk is still time-varying but has … second-order approximation of the solution, instead, is sufficient to get this role. Moreover, risk premia, evaluated using …