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Showing 1 to 20 of 215 for “"Risk-averse"”.
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Resilient and Risk-Averse Network Systems
… programming framework grounded in coherent risk measures to identify minimum-risk graph structures under stochastic vertex and/or edge weights. First, we consider a network flow problem and propose an approach for developing resilience metrics, where resilience refers to the network’s …
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Risk-averse multi-armed bandits and game theory
… existing bandits and game theory problems in a risk-averse framework and propose new ideas that address the shortcomings. The author believes that human beings are mostly risk-averse, so studying multi-armed bandits and game theory from the point of view of risk aversion, rather than expected …
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Efficient algorithms for risk-averse air-ground rendezvous missions
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2022-04-06 without embargo terms
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Fair and Risk-Averse Resource Allocation in Transportation Systems under Uncertainties
Addressing fairness among users and risk mitigation in the context of resource allocation in transportation systems under uncertainties poses a crucial challenge yet to be satisfactorily resolved. This dissertation attempts to address this challenge, focusing on achieving a balance between …
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Motivation to call police: The exploration of racial and risk averse motivation
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The floating contract between risk-averse supply chain partners in a volatile commodity price environment
… prices are addressed. In the first problem, a risk-averse commodity user's purchasing policy and his risk-neutral supplier's pricing decision, where the user can purchase his needs through contract with his supplier as well as directly from the spot market, are analyzed. The commodity user is …
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Efficient estimation of coherent risk measures for risk-averse optimization problems governed by partial differential equations with random inputs
… methods for the efficient estimation of risk measures of quantities of interest in the context of optimization of partial differential equations (PDEs) with random inputs. Risk measures of the quantities of interest arise as objective functions or as constraints in the PDE-constrained …
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Effects of risk aversion on value of information in two-action decision problems
… lottery without the information, then the more risk averse decision maker will value the perfect information higher than the less risk averse one. Conversely, if two decision makers reject the lottery without the information, then the less risk averse decision maker will value the perfect …
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Empirical identification of the risk shifting aspect of labor market implicit contracts
… and workers differ in their attitudes towards risk. The optimal wage and employment contract calls for shifting some of the risk associated with a randomly fluctuating marginal product of labor from the more risk averse party to the less risk averse party. The purpose of this dissertation is to …
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Farm-Level Evidence on Risk -Balancing Strategies of Illinois Grain Farmers Against Increasing Income Risk
… strategic plan that allows synergy between risk-balancing and other risk management strategies. The programming model was applied to four farm scenarios. The Base Farm scenario employs standard strategies that include risk-balancing, cash leasing of farmland and investing in nonfarm assets. …
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A Comparative Static Analysis For Invasive Species Management Under Risk Neutral Preferences
… technologies employed to reduce the risk of biological invaders in the presence of exogenous variables within the probability and damage functions. This is accomplished by using a theoretical endogenous risk model that extends previously developed frameworks. This thesis contributes …
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Incentive design for quality investment by smallholder producers
… effort from producers of different risk attitudes and defaulting likelihoods. In this paper, we consider a producer-agribusiness supply chain with stochastic wholesale market price and random production yield. We model the three commonly-observed pricing schemes of contract farming …
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Risk Analysis of Adopting Conservation Practices on a Representative Peanut-Cotton Farm in Virginia
… and sediment losses of a representative risk-neutral and risk-averse peanut-cotton farmer in Southeast Virginia. Five currently popular rotations and eight alternative conservation rotations are evaluated for the representative farm. The Erosion-Productivity Impact Calculator (EPIC) model …
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Three essays on insider trading
… Theory, 1978), in which perfectly competitive risk averse producers can sell their output on the cash market, at an uncertain price, or on a futures market at a guaranteed price. Risk averse speculators also trade in futures, having received noisy signals about eventual cash demand. In my first …
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Risk-Sensitive Foraging in Humans Budgeting Time: Correlated with Real-World Financial Situation
… task, the proposed study investigated risk-sensitive decision-making, in humans. Participants were asked to "spend" a most valuable resource, time, in order to complete a computer-based task. Participants were asked to choose between two computer-generated selection boxes, each yielding …
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Risk-Sensitive Foraging in Humans Budgeting Time: Correlated with Real-World Financial Situation
… task, the proposed study investigated risk-sensitive decision-making, in humans. Participants were asked to "spend" a most valuable resource, time, in order to complete a computer-based task. Participants were asked to choose between two computer-generated selection boxes, each yielding …
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Essays on institutions in developing economies
… to changes in the formal sector, when risk-averse agents may choose what risk to bear in addition to how to share a given risk. The second chapter studies informal insurance relationships in a setting with one-sided moral hazard, and shows how the tradeoff between incentive and …
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Analysing Risk Preferences and Time Preferences with respect to Smoking Status and Smoking Intensity
… relationship between smoking and factors such as risk preferences and time preferences has been the subject of a growing body of literature. This paper evaluates experimental data from smokers and nonsmokers at the University of Cape Town collected in 2016 and 2017. Maximum likelihood estimation …
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Risk Aversion and Adoption of Conservation Agriculture Practices in Eastern Uganda
… yields. One theory is that poor farmers are risk averse and therefore do not invest in high risk high return innovations and that risk averse farmers will only adopt larger innovations if they experience success with small ones. Risk preferences were measured in two districts in Uganda …
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