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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"information risk"”.
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Information risk, uncertainty risk and asset prices
… framework to analyze the impact of stochastic information friction in explaining business cycles and asset prices. I document a new mechanism to generate time variation in uncertainty from the information channel, where rational agents' beliefs from Bayesian learning features time-varying …
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Information, Risk, And Behavior: Evidence From The Public Finance Market
… in investor expectations concerning bond risk, among other factors, may explain these effects.
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Lenders' and Accountants' Perceptions of the Information Risk Reduction Provided by Prescribed Procedures
… officers' and accountants' perceptions of the information risk reduction that results when accountants perform different procedures. Twenty-three accountants' and seventeen bank loan officers' perceptions were studied on three dimensions of conformity with GAAP (appropriateness of accounting …
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Determining vulnerability using attach graphs: an expansion of the current FAIR model
<p>Factor Analysis of Information Risk (FAIR) provides a framework for measuring and understanding factors that contribute to information risk. One such factor is FAIR Vulnerability; the probability that an event involving a threat will result in a loss. An asset is vulnerable if a threat actor’s …
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Essays in Financial Economics
… decision and for the allocation of wealth to risky assets. I find that higher loss-aversion leads to a lower participation probability and a lower allocation to risky assets. The second essay evaluates the performance of a number of performance benchmarking techniques on a sample of active …
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GPU accelerated risk quantification
<p>Factor Analysis of Information Risk (FAIR) is a standard model for quantitatively estimating cybersecurity risks and has been implemented as a sequential Monte Carlo simulation in the RiskLens and FAIR-U applications. Monte Carlo simulations employ random sampling techniques to model certain …
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Accruals quality, stock returns seasonality and the cost of equity capital
… any pricing effect detected is attributable to risk, these questions remain among the more controversial in accounting research. This thesis comprises a brief introduction to theory underpinning the pricing of information risk, followed by three essays investigating the empirical relationship …
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Accruals quality, stock returns seasonality and the cost of equity capital
… any pricing effect detected is attributable to risk, these questions remain among the more controversial in accounting research. This thesis comprises a brief introduction to theory underpinning the pricing of information risk, followed by three essays investigating the empirical relationship …
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Impact of Manipulated Perceived Efficacy and Self-Affirmation on Measures of Risk, Efficacy, and Intention
… of health promotion is the encouragement of risk-reducing behaviour. In a series of 3 studies, the present program of research examined the effect of self-affirmation and manipulated perceived efficacy on perceptions of efficacy, risk perception, and risk-reducing behavioural intentions. …
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Commercial real estate conduit loan : its benefits and costs from the borrowers' and the lenders' perspectives
… perspective, the conduit brings liquidation, information risk diversification, buy-buck option of tailored loans and efficiency from specialization in substitution for underutilization of value information, adverse selection problem, price stability, flexibility and underwriting expertise …
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Agricultural tenancy and contracts: an economic analysis of the strange farmer system in the Gambia
… environmental and idiosyncratic factors such as information, risk, and incentive constraints impinge on agents in this environment and how alternative models of the strange farmer system explain how such problems are circumvented. The study concludes by examining the efficiency and (briefly) the …
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Three Studies of Auditor Independence
… students' cognitive moral development and client risk on students' judgments related to an audit partner's acquiescence to client pressure in an earnings management scenario. The results indicate that students with higher levels of moral reasoning evaluated earnings management as less ethical and …
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Essays on the Economics of Drinking Water Quality and Infrastructure
… The analysis focuses on the relationship between information, risk perceptions and willingness to pay. Results indicate that the choice to support any of the programs is negatively affected by the cost of the proposed improvement. Consumers' risk perceptions, the external information provided in …
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Toward a Decision Support System for Measuring and Managing Cybersecurity Risk in Supply Chains
Much of the confusion about the effectiveness of information security programs concerns not only how to measure, but also what to measure — an issue of equivocality. Thus, to lower uncertainty for improved decision-making, it is first essential to reduce equivocality by defining, expanding, and …
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Nonlinear dependence and its application in finance
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2024-03-01 without embargo terms