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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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Farmers’ Adaptation to Climate Change: A Framed Field Experiment

Alpízar, Francisco; Carlsson, Fredrik; Naranjo, Maria A. - 2010

baseline of high levels of risk aversion, we still found that farmers more frequently chose the safe options when the setting …The risk of losing income and productive means due to adverse weather can differ significantly among farmers sharing a … characteristics on Costa Rican coffee farmers’ decisions to adapt to climate change, using a framed field experiment. Despite having a …

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Coming of age - a comparative study of emerging foreign exchange markets

Mecklai, Jamal; Shaikh, Anis - In: Macroeconomics and Finance in Emerging Market Economies 3 (2010) 1, pp. 157-165

also constructed a risk management index using volatility and V2 (volatility of the volatility) to measure ease of risk … management. Five (out of 14) emerging markets we studied - India, Brazil, Malaysia, Turkey and Poland - improved their risk … Korea, all markets that had seemed reasonably mature in 2007, performed extmacfemly poorly from a risk management …

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Need for pragmatic regulation of markets: the takeaway from the recent financial crisis

Shunmugam, V. - In: Macroeconomics and Finance in Emerging Market Economies 3 (2010) 2, pp. 309-320

Despite being in an increasingly globalized economy with markets located far and wide, regulatory authorities across national boundaries, while focusing on their own market yards, had been in the dark about what had been happening in markets across borders. If leveraging opportunities and opaque...

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Pursuit of complete markets: the missing perspectives

Gopinath, Shyamala - In: Macroeconomics and Finance in Emerging Market Economies 3 (2010) 2, pp. 285-297

particular, underlying needs and systemic risk assessment should drive the regulatory framework for cash markets, not the elusive …

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Comovement revisited

Kasch, Maria; Sarkar, Asani - Federal Reserve Bank of New York - 2011

&P 500 index are informative events that trigger a reassessment of the risk of newly added firms by drawing the broad market …

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THE GLOBAL CRISIS AND THE BANKING SYSTEM OF ROMANIA IN THE YEAR 2009

POPESCU, Jenica; Prof. dr. - In: Annals of University of Craiova - Economic Sciences Series 1 (2009) 37, pp. 34-45

The financial system of Romania evolved in conditions strongly influenced by the manifestation of the global financial-economic crisis. At the beginning of the crisis, the Romanian economy had travelled through a period of many years of economic growth, accompanied however by the accumulation of...

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STATUTORY AUDIT

MORARIU1, Prof. Ana; D, Ph.; Domnişoru2, Prof. Sorinel; … - In: Annals of University of Craiova - Economic Sciences Series 1 (2009) 37, pp. 67-74

The paper brings forth additional information necessary for a better application and perception of the concept of statutory audit for all those who are interested in this matter. It emerges from the need of European harmonization and international convergence, limiting the content and the...

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ANALYSIS AND MANAGEMENT RISK IN INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS

Loredana, Lăpăduşi Mihaela; Constantin, Căruntu - In: Annals of University of Craiova - Economic Sciences Series 1 (2009) 37, pp. 192-200

The risk is one of the most controversial issues for all persons involved both in domestic and international world … economic affairs. The need to analyze, understand and effectively manage risk is growing, the ultimate aim being to obtain a … higher degree of successThe risk means exposure to an uncertain future, the opportunity to face danger or suffering a loss …

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AN APPROACH TO ANALYZE RISKS BY COMPUTING WITH WORDS

HUANG, CHONGFU - In: New Mathematics and Natural Computation (NMNC) 07 (2011) 01, pp. 89-103

probability distribution representing the random uncertainty of the risk source. An approach to infer a risk with words is to … represent the risk system by using probabilistic and possibilistic constraints. In this paper, with fuzzy logic, we give a …

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