are at the greatest risk, with the heaviest toll on low- and lower-middle-income economies. These catastrophes threaten …

availability, knowledge and education, risk preferences, profitability, and credit constraints receiving much attention. This paper … explored in panel data for Ethiopia. Historical rainfall distributions are used to identify the counterfactual consumption risk …

Algerian State-Owned Firms operate. These environments are qualified by "uncertainty" given the instability of the different …

We study the attitudes of junior and senior employees towards strategic uncertainty and competition, by means of a …-strategic uncertainty and for beliefs on others' competitiveness and ability. Social image matters, as evidenced by the fact that seniors … stereotype of risk averse and less competitive older employees. …

Current methods of risk management focus on efficiency and do not provide operational answers to the basic question of … how to optimise and balance the two objectives, maximisation of expected income and minimisation of risk. This paper uses … the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) to derive an operational criterion for the optimal risk management of firms. The …

for representing uncertainty and analysing risk management in agriculture. It is shown how historical farm account data …The importance of risk management increases as farmers become more exposed to risk. But risk management is a difficult … topic because income risk is the result of the complex interaction of multiple risk factors combined with the effect of an …

' adoption choices are affected by profit and risk considerations and by credit and biophysical constraints. New technologies …

of risk analysis was used to select twelve Hungarian local governments for an examination of the design and operation of …