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Showing 1 to 20 of 102 for “"Risk Exposure"”.
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Identifying Risk Exposure in a Global Retail Supply Chain
… prepare for eventual disruptions. Supply chain risk management (SCRM) is one area of study focused on the identification, assessment, mitigation and recovery from risks. In particular, we focus on the identification of risk within a global retail supply chain. Traditional risk models are …
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Spatial analysis of cycling risk in Helsinki using crowdsourced risk exposure data
… accident data often lacks normalization for risk exposure (i.e. volume of cycle traffic), which can obscure high-risk areas. In this thesis, cycling risk index values were calculated in the City of Helsinki by combining official and surveyed accident data and Strava Metro risk exposure data …
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Foreign exchange risk exposure, hedging behaviour, and corporate valuations: Evidence from South Africa
… literature documents a so-called exchange rate exposure puzzle. The exchange rate exposure puzzle refers to the apparent lack of empirical support for theories posited in the finance literature which predict that in the advent of an increasingly globalising world economy, nonfinancial firms …
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Foreign exchange risk exposure of Canadian domestic, exporting and multinational firms : market and industry effects on bilateral and multilateral exchange rates
… period to estimate overall exchange rate exposure of Canadian domestic and exporting companies to trade weighted multilateral exchange rates and to the Canada-U.S. bilateral exchange rate. The results show no significant exposure of the domestic firms sample, suggesting indirect exposure …
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Methods of payment and exporter's risk exposure: A view to exporter's payment risks and their management by different methods of payment during contracting for an international sale of goods
… no one knows too much. The exporter faces a risk of not being able to obtain the money due to him even if he himself has fulfilled his part of the bargain. Facing that problem he may end up using all sorts of methods and mechanisms to lower his risk exposure to an acceptable level, still …
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Development of an econometric model for dynamic management of recession risk in equity portfolios : construction of an empirical measure of time-varying recession risk : estimation of cross-sectional differences in recession risk exposure among equities and associated differences in risk premia
… model for dynamic management of recession risk in equity portfolios based on an empirical measure of timevarying recession risk, I plan to estimate cross-sectional differences in recession risk exposure among equities and associated differences in risk premia. The analysis is expanded on an …
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Efficient Resource Development in Electric Utilities Planning Under Uncertainty
… the concepts of robustness, flexibility, and risk exposure, to be considered in their resource development strategy. The concept of robustness means to develop resource plans that can perform well for most, if not all futures, while flexibility is to allow inexpensive changes to be made if the …
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The role of infant sleep in the relationship between cumulative risk and infant social-emotional development
… aimed to understand the effect of cumulative risk on the social-emotional functioning of infants. Additionally, this study examined sleep as a potential protective factor, which may promote healthier social-emotional outcomes despite risk. A sample of 325 caregiver-infant dyads completed …
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Risk and the UN International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
… (ICCPR) to refrain from exposing individuals to risk through their own conduct and to prevent or mitigate such risk exposure caused by the conduct of third parties. In this dissertation, such obligations are described broadly as ‘risk-based obligations’. Drawing primarily on the jurisprudence of …
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Factoring in Brazil: An Information Asymmetry Approach
… the apparent paradox between the need to reduce risk exposure and the choice of no-recourse factoring for the less risky accounts receivable by American firms.
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Modelling football match results and testing the efficiency of the betting market
… demand. Created by the bookmakers, this added risk exposure generates ample opportunities to uncover inefficiencies in the market. A dataset consisting of information from the most recent 11 years from six European countries has been used. Evidence is found of departures from weak-form …
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Two Essays on Institutional Investors and U.S. Bank Holding Companies
… Institutional investors also become less risk-averse when investing in BHCs that have expanded into non-banking business. However, the increased complexity and opaqueness of banks makes it harder for institutional investors to implement informative tradings, though grey and long-term …
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Regulatory risk constraints and investment decisions: unintended consequences for the financial system.
… between regulatory constraints on market risk and the fluctuation of the financial market, often depicted in the literature but not empirically proven. I find that market volatility is significantly dependent on (and Granger-caused by) the relative market risk exposure of Italian banks, …
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Quantifying Model Risk in Option Pricing and Value-at-Risk Models
… use models in order to price, hedge and measure risk. These models are reliant on assumptions and are prone to ”model risk”. Increased innovation in complex financial products has lead to increased risk exposure and has spurred research into understanding model risk and its underlying factors. …
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Risk in global infrastructure project financing
… infrastructure projects. Investors face several risks when going into these projects. These risks are even higher when the project is located in a foreign country. This thesis examines the risk exposure of investors and more specifically of lenders when financing foreign infrastructure projects. …
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Defining Resilience in Young People with Inflammatory Bowel Disease: A Theory Informed Approach
… as best practice: the specific contexts of risk exposure, protective and promotive factors and processes (PPFPs), and desired outcomes including and beyond the absence of risk.</p> <p>The current study utilized a qualitative approach to describe resilience in young people with IBD utilizing …
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Injury Risk of Road Departure Crashes using Modeling and Reconstruction Methods
… of these fatalities. Efforts to reduce to injury risk and risk exposure in these crashes have been hampered by the difficulty in performing reconstructions. To address the need for accurate reconstructions in order to assess injury risk, a vehicle-specific stiffness database was added to the …
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City of San Luis Obispo Open Space Vegetation Management Plan
… routes, historical fire data, predominant risk exposure, current wildfire preparedness plan, priority ranking, and a proposed implementation plan.</p>
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Crude Oil and Crude Oil Derivatives Transactions by Oil and Gas Producers.
… With these two major goals in mind, I study the risk and return profile of crude oil, the value effect of crude oil derivatives transactions, and the systematic risk exposure effect of crude oil derivatives transactions. In contrast with previous studies, this study applies the Goldman Sachs …
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Essays in financial economics
… curtail the accumulation of counterparty credit risk exposure at large banks on intermediation in over-the-counter derivatives markets. In Chapter 1 I analyze the effect on equity holders of regulation focused on exposures held off-balance sheet. While requiring banks to hold capital against …
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