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outlook for the risk evaluation in investment choice. Measurement tools form the main development in investment literature …
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performance and risk very differently, especially for companies with significant exposure to changes in fair values of financial … 2005 to 2006, and test the risk-relevance of these different volatility measures. We find that for the average bank, the … rate risk, is more closely associated with comprehensive income volatility than either net income volatility or fair value …
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This paper addresses the issue of the positive observed relationship be- tween GDP and HIV prevalence in Sub-Saharan Africa. We examine the role of the volatility of GDP per capita in lowering the incentives to invest in self-protection and, empirically, in the spread of the epidemic. Using a...
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inducing people to increasingly take the risk of HIV-infection and hence causing a rise in HIV prevalence. We provide a simple … model to stress on the e ects of an increase in income risk in the incentives for protection. We test the prediction using a … Africa is lifted. Additional nding states that the risk taking of HIV-infection increases when the individuals are facing …
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, but also on financial agents’ attitude towards risk. The pro-cyclical nature of the latter has a major impact on financial …
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develop the right framework with a risk dimension and governance for a specific FTC application: a framework that will assist …
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debates in relation to these drivers. Covering the related influences of national orientation, risk and responsibility …
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) responsibility for enacting safe practice is allocated to those with the least authority and capacity to mitigate risk. The article … closes by discussing how talk of culture obscures the role of social context and its contribution to risk in patient safety. …
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Modern tools for cost-effective conservation reserve site planning require the planner to have information about spatial distributions of conservation costs and benefits. Climate change creates unprecedented uncertainty about future land values and species habitat ranges, such that conservation...
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methodology for quantitatively measuring the hygrothermal discomfort risk of any building design. By combining a numeric model of … hygrothermal risk assessment, describes the developed numerical simulation models and introduces comfort reliability indexes. In …, comfort reliability and risk indices facilitate the comparison of alternative thermal building designs on a fair basis. The …
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