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Are Our Agricultural Risk Management Tools Adequate for a New Era?

Barnett, Barry J.; Coble, Keith H. - In: Choices 24 (2009) 1

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Local Ownership in Biofuels Production: A Strategy for Rural Development?

Hueth, Brent; Walker, William D. - In: Choices 23 (2008) 4

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Interest rate pass-through and risk

Frisancho-Mariscal, Iris Biefang; Howells, Peter - Department of Accounting, Economics and Finance, … - 2010

spreads is swept away after August 2007. By developing a model which incorporates measures of counterparty and liquidity risk …

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Economic and social effects of "El Nino" in Ecuador, 1997-8

Vos, R.; Velasco, M.; Labastida, E. - International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus … - 1999

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Gender and microinsurance

Leeuwen, I.W. van - International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus … - 2005

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A New Challenge in Project Scheduling. The Incorporation of Activity Failures

Reyck, B. De; Grushka-Cockayne, Y.; Leus, R. - In: Review of Business and Economics LII (2007) 3, pp. 410-435

The goal of this article is to survey the relevant literature on project scheduling with possible activity failures from a number of different disciplines, and to distill from these sources the formulation of a general optimization problem, the further study of which we would like to foster...

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Risk-Return of Belgian SRI Funds

Liedekerke, L. Van; Moor, L. De; Walleghem, D. Van - In: Review of Business and Economics LII (2007) 4, pp. 673-685

In this paper we apply a conditional 4-factor model to analyse the risk-return profile of Belgian socially responsible … difference between the risk-return trade-off of SRI and conventional funds in the Belgian market. If the risk-return profile is …

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An Inquiry into Banking Portfolios and Financial Stability Surrounding "The Great Recession"

Garita, Gus - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

, this paper characterizes a risk-stability index (RSI) that quantifies (i) common distress of banks, (ii) distress between … continuum; that the Korean and U.S. banking systems seem more prone to systemic risk; and that Asian banks experience the most …

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Mikroversicherungen: ein großer unerschlossener Markt

Steiner, Susan; Giesbert, Lena - In: DIW Wochenbericht 77 (2010) 43, pp. 2-5

Im Zug der Verbreitung von Mikrokrediten und Mikrosparprodukten werden seit ungefähr einem Jahrzehnt auch Versicherungen an einkommensschwache Haushalte in Entwicklungs- und Schwellenländern verkauft. Es besteht die Hoffnung, weite Teile der Bevölkerung, denen ein Zugang zu staatlichem...

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The risk of catastrophic terrorism: an extreme value approach

Mohtadi, Hamid; Murshid, Antu - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

This paper models the stochastic behavior of large-scale terrorism using extreme value methods. We utilize a unique dataset composed of roughly 26,000 observations. These data provide a rich description of domestic and international terrorism between 1968 and 2006. Currently, a credible...

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