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Remittances and Vulnerability to Poverty in Rural Mexico

de la Fuente, Alejandro - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2008

International remittances have been portrayed as the human face of globalization given their potential to alleviate poverty by directly increasing household income. Using a panel of rural households in Mexico from October 1998 to November 2000 this study assesses whether this is in fact the...

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A study regarding the risk of the micro-entreprises in the Dolj district

BUSE, Lucian; CIRCIUMARU, Daniel; SIMINICA, Marian; … - In: Annals of University of Craiova - Economic Sciences Series 1 (2008) 36, pp. 16-25

The study of the risk has become very important in the last years, due to the increase of the competition on the … number of bankruptcies in Romania. The micro-enterprises are, obviously, the most exposed at the risk of bankruptcy, fact … that justifies a study of the risk that these enterprises face. In this paper, we have analyzed the risk of the micro …

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THE INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT AND THE ISSUE OF RISKS FOR INTERNATIONAL BUSINESSES

Rotariu, Ioan; Feder, Emoke-Szidonia - In: Annales Universitatis Apulensis Series Oeconomica 2 (2008) 10, pp. 10-10

, decisions taken inuncertainty conditions, decisions taken in risk conditions. The process of decision, in internaland mainly … economical interdependencies, decisional actbeing confronted with country level risk, and at microeconomic level in order to … adoptdecisions interfered by firm level specific risk. …

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The importance of investment decision in enterprise management

Virginia, CUCU - In: Economia. Seria Management 12 (2009) 1 Special, pp. 204-210

The management of a company must fulfill at least two essential conditions in order to achieve the goal of maximizing the market value of the company: efficiently using the existent resources and the opportunity of increasing or decreasing the capital stock. The second condition implies a...

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Liquidity (risk) concepts: definitions and interactions

Nikolaou, Kleopatra - European Central Bank - 2009

We discuss the notion of liquidity and liquidity risk within the financial system. We distinguish between three … the root of liquidity risk lies in information asymmetries and the existence of incomplete markets. The role of central … risk. JEL Classification: G10, G20 …

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Payments risk forum launches blog

In: Financial Update (2009)

The Atlanta Fed's Retail Payments Risk Forum's blog, Portals and Rails, focuses specifically on retail payments risk …. The blog's readers are encouraged to discuss issues related to payments fraud, payments risk management, operational risks …

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Risks and resolutions: the ‘day after’ for financial institutions - a conference summary

Tannenbaum, Carl R.; VanBever, Steven - In: Chicago Fed Letter (2009) Jul

Services, sponsored its second annual Financial Institutions Risk Management Conference on April 14–15, 2009. The conference … focused on risk management, headline issues, and recent financial innovations. …

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Smoking and Health Investments: Impacts of Health Adaptation and Damage Reversibility

Carbone, Jared; Kverndokk, Snorre; Røgeberg, Ole-Jørgen - Helseøkonomisk Forskningsprogram (HERO), Universitetet … - 2009

about a direct and indirect effect on both death risk and utility. This allows us to study how a rational addict would smoke …

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Information asymmetry in decision from description versus decision from experience

Hadar, Liat; Fox, Craig R. - In: Judgment and Decision Making 4 (2009) 4, pp. 317-325

what outcomes are associated with each possible event, they are risk seeking for low-probability gains and risk averse for …

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The mean, the median, and the St. Petersburg paradox

Hayden, Benjamin Y.; Platt, Michael L. - In: Judgment and Decision Making 4 (2009) 4, pp. 256-272

The St.~Petersburg Paradox is a famous economic and philosophical puzzle that has generated numerous conflicting explanations. To shed empirical light on this phenomenon, we examined subjects' bids for one St.~Petersburg gamble with a real monetary payment. We found that bids were typically...

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