farmers' needs, expensive, benefiting agro-business, risk of decreased biodiversity), but does indicate that contamination of …

,000 residents in six different districts in Bangladesh facing various environmental risk exposure levels about their willingness to … participate in a catastrophe insurance programme. Combining factors put forward in risk theory and economics, we estimate a model … depending on both exogenous and endogenous risk exposure levels. As predicted by micro-economic theory, ability to pay, measured …

between public risk perceptions and attitudes and those of 'experts'. Public views of risk are often inconsistent and …

One of the risks of making a bank loan or investing in a debt security is credit risk, the risk of borrower default. In … response to this risk, new financial instruments called credit derivatives have been developed in the past few years. Credit … derivatives can help banks, financial companies, and investors manage the credit risk of their investments by insuring against …