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La crisi finanziaria è un test per Basilea II?

Avesani, Renzo G. - In: ECONOMIA E POLITICA INDUSTRIALE 36 (2009) 4, pp. 23-35

<em>Is the financial crisis a test for Basel II?</em> - In the last few months the debate about the Basel II framework has been intensified by the extent of the current financial crisis. The main discussion focused also on the impact of the new capital regulation over the business cycle fluctuations....

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The egocentricity of the present (prefaced by the tale of Ruth and Emma)

Fisher, Richard W. - In: Speech (2008) Apr 9

"In building the bridge to restore financial order and efficiency, my primary interest is to do the minimum necessary to get the job done. And no more. In so doing, my hope is that we restore the long-term faith of the millions of risk takers who make our economy so mighty." ; Remarks before a...

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Determinantes do uso de mercados futuros pelos produtores de soja no município de Cascavel - PR

Marques, Romao Honorio Serpa; Aguiar, Danilo Rolim Dias de - In: Revista de Economia e Agronegocio / Brazilian Review of … 2 (2004) 2

This study compares the producers who use future markets with those that donâ€™t use this strategy to figure out the principal characteristics that differentiate them. Moreover there were studied the methods and strategies that farmers use for reducing price risk of soybeans. Besides...

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Risk-adjusted measures of value creation in financial institutions

Milne, Alistair; Onorato, Mario - Suomen Pankki - 2009

Measuring value creation by comparing the RAROC of an exposure (the return on risk capital) with a single institution-wide hurdle rate is inconsistent with the standard theory of financial valuation. We use asset pricing theory to determine the appropriate hurdle rate for such a RAROC...

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When Do Stop-Loss Rules Stop Losses?

Kaminski, Kathryn; Lo, Andrew W. - Institute for Financial Research (SIFR) - 2008

Stop-loss rules-predetermined policies that reduce a portfolio's exposure after reaching a certain threshold of cumulative losses-are commonly used by retail and institutional in- vestors to manage the risks of their investments, but have also been viewed with some skep- ticism by critics who...

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Agricultural Risk Management through Community-Based Wildlife Conservation in Rural Zimbabwe

Muchapondwa, Edwin; Sterner, Thomas - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2009

This paper investigates whether the risk faced by rural farmers in Zimbabwe could poten- tially be managed by using community-based wildlife conservation. Community-based wildlife conservation could be an additional asset in the rural farmers’ investment portfolio thereby potentially...

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Minimum Tracking Error Volatility

Riccetti, Luca - Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Sociali, Facoltà … - 2010

Investors assign part of their funds to asset managers that are given the task of beating a benchmark. The risk … understand whether the asset manager is really active or not and, in practice, asset managers sometimes follow passively the … corresponding index. Moreover, the benchmark is sometimes difficult to be beaten when the risk managers only check that portfolio …

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Two Risk-aware Resource Brokering Strategies in Grid Computing:Broker-driven vs. User-driven Methods

Hwang, Junseok; Park, Jihyoun; Altmann, Jorn - Technology Management, Economics and Policy Program … - 2010

Grid computing evolves toward an open computing environment, which is characterized by highly diversified resource providers and systems. As the control of each computing resource becomes difficult, the security of users¡¯ job is often threatened by various risks occurred at individual...

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THE EFFECTS OF THE ENERGY TO ECOSYSTEM AND RISK MANAGEMENT SOLUTION FOR COVERING THE POTENTIAL LOSSES

DAN, GAVRILETEA MARIUS; IOANA, GAVRILETEA MIHAELA - In: Annals of Faculty of Economics 3 (2009) 1, pp. 212-217

In this paper we analyse the influence on climate change by one of the most important factors: the energy production and consumption, who caused in the last decades important damages to the ecosystems. The available resources of energy production are quit

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Developing economy banking: the case of Islamic banks

Ghannadian, Farhad F.; Goswami, Gautam - In: International Journal of Social Economics 31 (2004) July, pp. 740-752

By 2003, there was a total of 176 Islamic banks around the globe with their total assets close to $147 billion. This article shows that this form of specialized banking may help in promoting growth in these developing economies. During the transition phase of a developing growth economy to a...

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