frustrating experience for Neoclassical economists. Studies have focused on the role of risk, but thus far no one has been able to … one can devise a comprehensive explanation of UIRP--an explanation that shows that much more than risk is responsible for …

viable solution for overcoming this difficulty is to use a mix of additional disaster risk financing sources, their proper …

A specific risk of this period is liquidity risk arised from inexistence of adecquted management. A new risk arises … guaranted) and from general point of view is going to be a major problem for each company and individual involved. Another risk …

Value at risk (VaR) has become a standard measure of portfolio risk over the last decade. It even became one of the … increase risk. This finding is of relevance not only for investors, but even more so for bank regulation authorities. …

against unintentional child injuries by identifying the socioeconomic risk factors for injury. Socioeconomic data from the … a younger, less educated mother are more at risk of getting injured. Paternal characteristics turned out to have an …

The individuals’ ability to assume the risk in taking the consumption decisions was largely debated both at the … individuals’ ability to assume the risk in taking the consumption decisions, considering some objective and subjective aspects … assuming the risk may be associated with the shape of the indifference curve. …

In this paper we propose a new measure of vulnerability called vulnerability to downside risk. The relevant benchmark …) axiomatic measure of vulnerability to poverty. We apply a measure of both vulnerability to downside risk and to poverty to data … substantially between different wealth groups. Consequently, the relation between initial wealth and vulnerability to downside risk …

trade is inevitably initiated or taken in circumstances of uncertainty and risk. There are sometimes situations where the … uncertainty is too high, making it virtually impossible because a decision or goal in itself or the way that it can achieve are … between risky situations and certain situations, but between different degrees of risk and different outcomes. …

The paper aims at introducing copula-models' concepts and its application to solving such financials programs as risk … measurement, risk hedging, portfolio optimization, derivatives pricing and duration models evaluation. For the purpose the copula …