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Showing 1 to 20 of 25943 for “"Risk"”.
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Risk allocation for temporal risk assessment
… composed into temporal plans, then, there is a risk of not meeting the plan requirements. Currently, we do not have quantitatively precise methods for assessing temporal risk of a plan. Existing methods that deal with temporal uncertainty either forgo probabilistic models or try to optimize a …
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Information risk, uncertainty risk and asset prices
… fluctuations and carries a negative price of risk for asset valuations. The interaction between imperfect information and financial market friction provides an important channel to amplify the effect of information uncertainty on asset pricing. Empirical evidence supports the model's …
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Risk vs. risk: planning and risk management in disaster-induced displacement and relocation
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2022-11-11 without embargo terms
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A test of the expanded AIDS risk reduction model managing risk to me, risk to you and risk to us
… when they believe their partners are at risk for contracting HIV. Relationship preservation results illustrated that when people fear of losing their relationship they are willing to do whatever it takes to keep the relationship going, even at the cost of contracting HIV. By extending the …
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Control risk as audit risk element assessment model /
… determinant of audit quality - this is audit risk which has to be assessed by auditor each time during audit. In order to assess the audit risk inherent risk element should be eliminated, and reduction of detection risk leads to increase of auditors work volume, which leads to a longer and / …
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Do Mandated Risk Disclosures Affect Corporate Risk-Taking?
I examine whether mandated risk disclosures affect corporate risk-taking. I argue that mandated risk disclosures influence corporate risk-taking by mitigating risk-related agency conflicts and informing managers about their firms’ risks. Using the 2005 risk factor disclosure mandate as a setting, I …
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Private risk
… to include both traded and non-traded unique risks. Our principal focus is on private risks-risks that are not tradable in financial markets. The first essay: Generalizes the treatment of the buying price and the selling price of a private risk lottery by allowing portfolio rebalancing in the …
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Foresight for risk – using scenarios for strategic risk assessment and management of emergent disaster risk
… contribute to the complex nature of disaster risk, which is considered to be the combination of natural hazard intensity and extent, exposure (assets, people, other values), and vulnerabilities of the exposed values to the characteristics of the hazards. This can be considered the risk …
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Longevity Risk: Retirement Product Innovation and Risk Management Strategies
… increasingly exposes individuals to the risk of outliving their retirement savings, known as longevity risk. This thesis proposes new retirement income products with various strategies for managing longevity risk. First, we introduce a retirement product to provide pensioners with a …
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Risk Assessment and Risk Management of Nano-Material Toxicity
… aimed at developing a preliminary framework for risk assessment (RA) and risk management (RM) of nano materials based on fundamental principles of chemistry, physics, toxicology, and other related disciplines.
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Essays in Risk and Risk-Coping in Developing Settings
<p>Economic risks of many sorts are prevalent in developing countries. In this dissertation I exploit rainfall variation, a particularly prominent form of risk, to study three related topics in development economics. Because many households in developing countries still depend in large part on …
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The language of risk and the risk of language
This mini-dissertation is written towards an MA in Linguistics. As such, it falls within the domain of Humanities. However, its author is a doctor and the subject matter is medical, which falls within the domain of Science. The mini-dissertation thus bridges these different domains, and the …
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An examination of liquidity risk and liquidity risk measures
Liquidity risk represents a vacuum of rigour in the otherwise well-researched area of risk management. In both practice and theory most of finance is silent regarding its scope and effect. This is principally due to a lack of consensus regarding its definition and measurement. Current liquidity …
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Risk free to risk taking developing the renaissance manager
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1985.
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Quantitative Market Risk Disclosure, Bond Default Risk and the Cost of Debt: Why Value at Risk
… issues show that the reduction in bond default risk and cost of debt is observed more frequently with the value at risk format than with sensitivity analysis. Firm size might be a confounding factor, however, because larger firms choose to disclose more value at risk than sensitivity analysis.
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Handling Risk: Testosterone and Risk Preference, Evidence from Dhaka, Bangladesh
<p>The relationship between testosterone and risk aversion is of increasing interest in the experimental economics. Using the ratio of the second digit to the fourth digit (2D:4D) as a rough indicator of level of prenatal testosterone exposure, this study attempts to replicate recent results from …
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