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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"risk transfer"”.
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Risk transfer in operational public private partnerships in the education sector
Despite risk transfer being deemed a key driver in attaining value for money in Public Private Partnerships (PPPs), plus the substantial resources already committed to PPPs globally, prior studies have tended to focus on PPP procurement, projects in their early stages or on the accounting treatment …
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Composition of traders in live cattle futures contracts: behavior and implications to price discovery
The concepts of risk transfer and price discovery are well developed roles for futures markets. The interaction between traders in futures markets in the transferring and acceptance of price risk contributes to the discovery of price. Interaction of traders in the risk transfer and price discovery …
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Essays on Real Estate, Flood Risk, and Political Sentiment
… that investigate how climate change, flood risk, and political sentiment influence outcomes in housing markets.</p> <p>Chapter 1: This chapter offers a brief review and discussion of several recent and seminal papers at the intersection of flood risk, climate change, and real estate, as well …
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Assessing the rise of Design-Build-Finance Delivery in Transportation Infrastructure
… two variants of DBF, DBF – Receivables and DBF – Risk Transfer, were identified; the DOTs investigated and the US more broadly, primarily use the DBF - Receivables variant where the contractor is entitled to payments for the activities completed irrespective of the project's completion. Whereas in …
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Risk warehousing within insurance firms and the role of securitization
… key economic functions. First, they intermediate risk by marketing, selling and administering insurance policies. Second, they warehouse the risks underlying those policies. If viewed as separate businesses, intermediation and warehousing have very different risk profiles and characteristics. …
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Derivative usage by listed companies in Mauritius, Morocco, Tunisia, WAEMU region 2008/2009
… through the mechanisms of price discovery and risk transfer; derivative instruments introduce greater market efficiency and provide market participants the opportunity to hedge their exposure to various financial risks. The development of a derivative strong market in Africa presents a …
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Financing the DOD acquisition budget: innovative uses of public-private partnerships
… using Public-Private Partnerships through proper risk transfer in lieu of Full Up-Front Funding. The examination concludes that continued and expanded use of Public-Private Partnerships provides increased real time capability to DOD while supporting private industry. Public-Private Partnership …
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Built environment system resiliency subject to extreme events with fema ihp
… capital. Due to shifting demographics, high-risk settlements are increasingly placing both populations and the built environment at substantial loss exposure to such extreme events. Instead of retaining extreme event risks associated with these settlements, owners tend to transfer the risk to …
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Risk management and disaster relief operations
… more vulnerable since more people are living in riskier situations. The number of people at risk is growing every year and most of this population is located in developing countries where resources are limited. The purpose of this study is to identify the different types of risk and risk …
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From childhood to parenthood : continuity of risk over time and contextual factors perpetuating the inter-generational transfer of risk
… as its goal the examination of the continuity of risk over time and across generations associated with aggression and social withdrawal in childhood. More specifically, contextual factors related to financial disadvantage namely, low educational attainment, inadequate social support, and poor …
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Japanese version of private finance initiative and future prospects of the market in the conduction industry
… of the PFI such as "Value For Money" or risk transfer. This thesis also examines future possibilities for expanding the Japanese Version of PFI in the construction market and proposes possible areas for private financing including renewal works for aged infrastructure in the Japanese and …
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The Transfer Promise: An Investigation of Impediments to Academic Success and Persistence in a Mid-Sized Urban University
<p>This study adapted and validated, for use with transfer students, an existing freshman survey instrument designed to identify patterns of noncognitive factors related to academic performance and persistence. This study also explored the transfer experience by combining a qualitative interview …
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Tax treatment of trade in cattle futures: possible implications to market efficiency and price stability
… examines the interaction of traders in the risk transfer and price discovery process in the live cattle markets. Econometric models over disaggregated data sets were developed to explain expected margin behavior in response to the changes in the positions held by identifiable and specific …
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Risk Allocation, Decision Rights, and Adaptive Lifecycle Project Management Practices in Public-Private Partnership Highway Contracts in Australia, the Philippines, and India
… infrastructure where private finance is put at risk throughout the contract's duration. By bundling these key tasks in the hands of the private sector, PPPs are expected to address certain limitations of traditional delivery approaches by capitalizing on private sector expertise and …
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Essays on corporate finance
… shareholder rights reduces the firm’s default risk as measured by adjusted CDS spreads. Exploiting the discontinuity in the vote outcome around the majority threshold, we find that passing a governance proposal lowers the cumulative adjusted CDS spreads by about 6 bps in a two-day window around …
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TOWARDS AUTOMATED CONTRACT ANALYSIS: APPLYING LANGUAGE MODELS TO RISK IDENTIFICATION IN THE CONTEXT OF PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS
Risk management is critical to project success, especially in public-private partnerships (P3s) featuring long-term relationships, uncertainty, and complexity. Poorly handled risk management, especially regarding risk transfer, can lead to incentive distortion, disputes, or even project failure. …
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Schnellbewertung der Erdbebengefährdung von Gebäuden
… can be reduced to a minimum by appropriate risk mitigation or risk transfer measures (favourable loans for strengthening, Insurances, etc.). The expected annual loss and the technical insurance premiums can also be determined in conjunction with a probabilistic seismic hazard analysis PSHA. …
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The significance and co-dependency of 'robustness' in PFI projects : a granting authority perspective
… processes that are of focus are Value for Money, RiskTransfer Assessment and Affordability.A qualitative research strategy is used to execute the study. This is implementedusing a case study framework whereby multiple embedded case studies areused. The case studies are used to capture the …
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Toward Effective Management of Public-Private Partnership for Infrastructure in the Sultanate of Oman
… structure, value for money, and efficient risk management. Consequently, PPP formation and implementation are risky for the public and private sectors.<br/>This research has set out to identify the challenges of PPP adoption in Oman and subsequently put forward a comprehensive framework for …
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