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Chichilnisky, G.; Heal, G. - Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences - 1992

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The Lender-Borrower Relationship with Risk Averse Lenders

Pausch, Thilo - Institut für Volkswirschaftlehre, Fakultät für … - 2003

This paper analyzes optimal incentive compatible debt contracts when lenders are risk averse. The decisive factor in … this regard is that risk aversion requiresto consider further sources of risk the lenders are exposed to. The main … due to risk aversion oflenders which is reinforced by the introduction of a further source of risk – areshown to be in …

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Gender and microinsurance

LEEUWEN, I. van - Institute of Social Studies (ISS) - 2005

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CONSIDERATIONS ON THE PLANNING OF THE FINANCIAL AUDIT MISSION

Dragan, Cristian; Marcu, Nicu; Goagara, Daniel - In: Revista Tinerilor Economisti (The Young Economists Journal) 1 (2007) 9, pp. 43-50

acceptable level of the audit risk; understanding the internal control system of the entity; determining rigorously of the terms …

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Hedging Strategies in Forest Management

Brunette, Marielle; Couture, Stephane; Langlais, Eric - Laboratoire d'Économie Forestière, Département … - 2007

The paper focuses on the choice of forest management strategies for natural hazards by nonindustrial owners, when forest provides nontimber services. We introduce a basic two-period model where the private owner hedges against natural hazards on his/her forest thanks to financial strategies...

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Insurance Demand for Disaster-type Risks and the Separation of Attitudes toward Risk and Ambiguity: an Experimental Study

Brunette, Marielle; Cabantous, Laure; Couture, Stéphane; … - Laboratoire d'Économie Forestière, Département … - 2008

support for the hypothesis that attitude to risk and attitude to ambiguity are two independent phenomena. In fact in this … experiment, decision-makers are both risk-seekers (i.e., the mean WTP for insurance is on average smaller than the expected value … of the loss) and ambiguity averse (i.e., the mean WTP for insurance is on average higher for an ambiguous risk than for a …

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Effects of Public Compensation for Disaster Damages on Private Insurance and Forest Management Decisions

Brunette, Marielle; Couture, Stephane - Laboratoire d'Économie Forestière, Département … - 2007

, attitudes toward risk, stand value, and the magnitude and frequency of the public compensation on insurance expenditures and on …

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Robust Poverty Comparisons and Marginal Policy Reform Orderings Under Income Variability

MAKDISSI, Paul; WODON, Quentin - Département d'économique, Faculté d'administration - 2003

A method is proposed to provide robust poverty comparisons and robust evaluations of marginal policy reforms under income variability. Given that a household’s certainty equivalent income depends on both expected income and income variability, stochastic dominance tests are developed in order...

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ECONOMIC RISK AND THE STRUCTURAL CHARACTERISTICS OF FARM BUSINESSES

Barry, Peter J.; Escalante, Cesar L.; Bard, Sharon K. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2000

Using longitudinal panel farm-level data, this study finds that income variability may be materially influenced by farm size. Econometric results suggest that policy analyses and other considerations of the distributional effects of, and response to, income variability for commercial scale...

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THE VALUE OF PLANTING FLEXIBILITY PROVISIONS IN THE 1990 FARM BILL TO THREE REPRESENTATIVE TEXAS FARMS

Chien, Ming-Che; Leatham, David J. - In: Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics 26 (1994) 01

selection decisions, farm returns, and farm risk. Results show that gains from the added planting flexibility do not offset the …

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