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A Market for Weather Risk ? Conflicting Metrics, Attempts at Compromise and Limits to Commensuration
Huault, Isabelle; Rainelli, Hélène - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2011
derivatives in Europe. We approach this issue through an in-depth qualitative study in which we focus on the commensuration … derivatives market as a meeting place between different metrics, our results highlight the failure of a process of commensuration …, we use the theoretical framework provided by Boltanski and Thévenot (2006) to enrich the literature on commensuration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010706604
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A market for weather risk ? Worlds in conflict and compromising.
Huault, Isabelle; Rainelli-Le Montagner, Hélène - Université Paris-Dauphine
In this paper we study the development of the market for weather derivatives in Europe. We show that weather derivatives conceived as financial products by their promoters have difficulties finding end-users. We describe the attempts of market promoters using a framework drawn from economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008520033
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A market for weather risk ? Worlds in conflict and compromising.
Huault, Isabelle; Rainelli-Le Montagner, Hélène - Université Paris-Dauphine
In this paper we study the development of the market for weather derivatives in Europe. We show that weather derivatives conceived as financial products by their promoters have difficulties finding end-users. We describe the attempts of market promoters using a framework drawn from economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008532725
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A market for weather risk ? Worlds in conflict and compromising
Rainelli, Hélène; Huault, Isabelle - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2008
In this paper we study the development of the market for weather derivatives in Europe. We show that weather derivatives conceived as financial products by their promoters have difficulties finding end-users. We describe the attempts of market promoters using a framework drawn from economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010707243
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A market for weather risk ? Worlds in conflict and compromising
Rainelli, Hélène; Huault, Isabelle - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2008
In this paper we study the development of the market for weather derivatives in Europe. We show that weather derivatives conceived as financial products by their promoters have difficulties finding end-users. We describe the attempts of market promoters using a framework drawn from economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010707463
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A Market for Weather Risk ? Conflicting Metrics, Attempts at Compromise and Limits to Commensuration.
Huault, Isabelle; Rainelli-Weiss, Hélène - HAL - 2011
derivatives in Europe. We approach this issue through an in-depth qualitative study in which we focus on the commensuration … derivatives market as a meeting place between different metrics, our results highlight the failure of a process of commensuration …, we use the theoretical framework provided by Boltanski and Thévenot (2006) to enrich the literature on commensuration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009650047
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Adopting management philosophies : management gurus, public organizations, and the conomies of worth
Elk, Sam van; Trenholm, Susan; Lee, Robert H.; Ferlie, Ewan - In: Public management review 25 (2023) 7, pp. 1309-1332
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014321252
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Betting on Hitler - The Value of Political Connections in Nazi Germany
Voth, Hans-Joachim - 2007
We examine the effect of close links with the NSDAP on the stock price of listed firms in 1932-33. While earlier work had primarily analysed the connections between executives and the Nazi party, we also look at supervisory board membership - the importance of which is hard to overestimate in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012778707
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Betting on Hitler: The value of political connections in Nazi Germany
Voth, Joachim; Ferguson, Thomas - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2008
This paper examines the value of connections between German industry and the Nazi movement in early 1933. Drawing on previously unused contemporary sources about management and supervisory board composition and stock returns, we find that one out of seven firms, and a large proportion of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008558987
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Discounting the Future: on Climate Change, Ambiguity Aversion and Epstein-Zin Preferences
Olijslagers, Stan; van Wijnbergen, Sweder - 2019
We focus on the effect of preference specifications on the current day valuation of future outcomes. Specifically, we analyze the effect of risk aversion, ambiguity aversion and the elasticity of intertemporal substitution on the willingness to pay to avoid climate change risk. The first part of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012114783