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This 2014–2015 Global Food Policy Report is the fourth in an annual series that provides a comprehensive overview of major food policy developments and events. In this report, distinguished researchers, policymakers, and practitioners review what happened in food policy in 2014 at the global,...
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This study examines the factors that lead to issuing negative opinions on semiannual reports while issuing positive opinions in annual reports from the perspective of auditor-client relationships in listed companies in Taiwan. The empirical results show that the importance of the client is...
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The purpose of this paper is to serve as a guide for students’ use of actual data for risk and return calculations …. The study of stock return risk has been of interest to investors and academics for several decades. Early discussion of … higher risk investments. The general concept is to evaluate return risk either on a stand-alone basis (commonly using …
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We examine the impact of board diversity on both the corporate value and equity risk of British companies since the … financial crisis. We find that the inclusion of overseas directors on boards improves market value and reduces equity risk. When … no effect on risk. These findings do not change when we allow for the presence of board members who are qualified …
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investors carry power market risks, in particular the power price risk. At the same time however, under the current financial … endanger further deployment and the achievement of renewable targets with it. Against this background we take a risk … perspective to assess the past and upcoming EEG reforms, with the aim of developing a proposal to gradually shift risk towards RE …
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Remarks by Eric S. Rosengren, President and Chief Executive Officer, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, at The Institute of International Finance Spring Membership Meeting, Copenhagen, Denmark, June 7, 2012.
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to measuring levels of risk aversion and ambiguity aversion (over both gains and losses). The authors then elicit … sanctions-and-rewards mechanism, it is important to consider individual attitudes toward risk and uncertainty. …
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The microeconomic analysis of poverty in Peru shows the following results. First, poverty is mainly explained by the income of the poor which is not only low, but also highly unstable. Second, poverty is related to the poor’s bad decision making due to incomplete information, intertemporal...
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This study attempts to find out the significance of demographic factors of population such as gender, age, education, occupation, income, savings and family size over several elements of investment decisions like priorities based on characteristics of investments, period of investment, reach of...
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„Reflection effect“ means, that people are risk averse if dealing with profits and risk seeking by challenging losses … the participant willingness to take risk in different domains of life is also considered. An econometric model for … predictions of the paired lottery game results depending on the risk characteristics identified within DOSPERT is estimated in the …
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