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The Rise and Fall of Gulf Finance House
khnifer, mohammed - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This paper dissects the balance sheet and business model of Gulf Finance, and scrutinizes the existence of a "pre-exit premium" in their activities – on top of the usual exit fees and/or performance fees. The study suggests that this practice (uncommon even for conventional Private Equity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008765627
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Complementarity and Substituability in Multiple-Risk Insurance Markets.
Koehl, Pierre-François; Villeneuve, Bertrand - Université Paris-Dauphine - 2001
We study imperfect competition between insurers in a multiple-risk environment. In the absence of asymmetric …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008773599
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Impatience and uncertainty: Experimental decisions predict adolescents? field behavior
Sutter, Matthias; Kocher, Martin G.; Ruetzler, Daniela; … - Institut für Finanzwissenschaft, Fakultät für … - 2010
We study risk attitudes, ambiguity attitudes, and time preferences of 661 children and adolescents, aged ten to … eighteen years, in an incentivized experiment. We relate experimental choices to field behavior. Experimental measures of …) and are less likely to save money. Experimental measures for risk and ambiguity attitudes are only weak predictors of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008774528
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Assessing river flood risk and adaptation in Europe—review of projections for the future
Kundzewicz, Zbigniew; Lugeri, Nicola; Dankers, Rutger; … - In: Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change 15 (2010) 7, pp. 641-656
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008775661
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Modelling economic impacts and adaptation to extreme events: Insights from European case studies
Mechler, Reinhard; Hochrainer, Stefan; Aaheim, Asbjørn; … - In: Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change 15 (2010) 7, pp. 737-762
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008775663
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River flood risk and adaptation in Europe—assessment of the present status
Lugeri, Nicola; Kundzewicz, Zbigniew; Genovese, Elisabetta - In: Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change 15 (2010) 7, pp. 621-639
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008775679
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Individual and couple decision behavior under risk: evidence on the dynamics of power balance
Palma, André; Picard, Nathalie; Ziegelmeyer, Anthony - In: Theory and Decision 70 (2011) 1, pp. 45-64
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008776423
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Correlated risks and the value of information
Eeckhoudt, Louis; Thomas, Alban; Treich, Nicolas - In: Journal of Economics 102 (2011) 1, pp. 77-87
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008776504
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Risk Assessment of a Sample of Securities in Casablanca Stock Exchange
Abderrazik, Amal; Boutkardine, Mehdi; Bahi, El; Houda, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
The management of financial risks, which is a branch of financial theory, is defined as a process that begins with risk … factors identification, continues with measurement of risk and concludes with the coverage of that risk. This work focuses on … the second phase of management process, namely the measurement of risk. This can be defined as an uncertainty which has an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008776864
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Microinsurance: A Large Untapped Market
Steiner, Susan; Giesbert, Lena - In: Weekly Report 6 (2010) 33, pp. 245-249
In tandem with the growth of microloans and microsavings, insurance policies geared towards low-income households have also become increasingly widespread over the past decade in developing and emerging countries. There is hope that microinsurance will allow large segments of the population who...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008776969