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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"risk tradeoff"”.
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Predation Risk and Colony Structure in the Pea Aphid, Acyrthosiphon Pisum
… aggregations to reduce individual predation risk. Hamilton's "Selfish Herd" theory states that an individual should assume a central position within a group to decrease individual predation risk relative to that of its neighbors (i.e., individuals should be selfish). This theory, however, …
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Efficiency-risk tradeoffs in dynamic oligopoly markets : with application to electricity markets
In an abstract framework, we examine how a tradeoff between efficiency and risk arises in different dynamic oligopolistic markets. We consider a scenario where there is a reliable resource provider and agents which enter and exit the market following a random process. Self-interested and fully …
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Two analyses of costs of agricultural NPS pollution: Transactions costs of expanding nutrient trading to agricultural working lands and Impacts of TCs and differential BMP adoption rates on the cost of reducing agricultural NPS pollution in Virginia
… lands. These results suggest an important cost/risk tradeoff between verification cost and compliance certainty for program designers to consider. The second study (Chapter 2) considers the economic cost of meeting pollution reduction targets for the Virginia portion of the CB Watershed. …
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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