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Estimating The Ex-Ante Willingness to Pay for Flood Protection

Farrow, Scott; Scott, Michael - Economics Department, University of Maryland-Baltimore … - 2011

Floods provide a useful example of risky events that span a range from small to catastrophic. In such circumstances the economically preferred measure of the benefits is based on an ex-ante measure that takes into account a person’s willingness to pay to avoid variability in their income or...

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Valuing the Health Benefits of Food Safety: A Proceedings

Kuchler, Fred - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 2001

Because each Federal agency uses a different valuation method to estimate the costs of illness, it is difficult to compare programs across agencies. As a first step toward generating a consensus on the current state of knowledge and deciding on a common approach, several agencies planned this...

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Willingness to pay for intervention policies related to HIV/AIDS: a theoretical framework with endogenous risk, perceived effectiveness and altruism

Fernandez, Mario Andres; Shaw, Douglas - In: Economics Bulletin 33 (2013) 2, pp. 1457-1467

Intervention policies for HIV/AIDS differ in their approaches, and acceptability to control the spread of the epidemics. We introduce a theoretical model to depict how several factors may determine an individual's maximum willingness to pay for any HIV/AIDS policy. Heterogeneous baseline risks,...

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Applicative Approach to Risk Management

MIRON, Dumitru; PETCU, Monica; SOBOLEVSCHI, Iulia DAVID - In: REVISTA DE MANAGEMENT COMPARAT INTERNATIONAL/REVIEW OF … 12 (2011) 5, pp. 883-892

Order, symmetries, correspondences and proportionalities that served ashypothesis for any economical theories are frequently infirmed by the contemporary reality. The new theoretical approaches take into consideration chaos, as an endogenous feature of simple nonlinear systems and synergetic of...

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What neuroeconomics does really mean ?

Schmidt, Christian - In: Revue d'économie politique 118 (2008) 1, pp. 7-34

various contributions of this neuroeconomic approach to three main economic domains: The individual decision-making, the risk …

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Coping with Complex Environmental and Societal Flood Risk Management Decisions: An Integrated Multi-criteria Framework

Hansson, Karin; Larsson, Aron; Danielson, Mats; … - In: Sustainability 3 (2011) 9, pp. 1357-1380

. The resulting framework consists of a simulation model, a decision analytical tool, and a set of suggested policy … strategies for policy formulation. The framework will aid decision makers with high risk complex environmental decisions subject …

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Analytical Methods for the Analysis of Managerial Risk in the Marketing

BRADUTAN, Svetlana - In: Romanian Statistical Review Supplement 61 (2013) 2, pp. 101-105

Within forecasts based on single estimations the risk due to uncertainty is not considered. Yet they continue to be widely used in practice in different areas of marketing such as the return on investments, discounted flow of benefits of a project, the average annual benefit of an investment a.s.o.

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Investors Behaviour between Theory and Practice

Mionel, Oana - In: International Journal of Academic Research in … 2 (2012) Special 1, pp. 53-56

rational” and make decision optimally. In contrast, psychology has observed how they fail to be rational from an economic …

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Enterprise risk management and disclosure

Popa, Adina Simona; Farcane, Nicoleta; Fulconis, François - In: Analele Universitatii "Eftimie Murgu" Resita Fascicola … 1 (2008) XV, pp. 345-352

Our paper deals with aspects regarding risk and uncertainty.Using content analyze in this paper we survey the disclosure level of risk management information in the annual report of top Romanian listed companies.

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DECISION TREES â€“ A PERSPECTIVE OF ELECTRONIC DECISIONAL SUPPORT

Marginean, Nicolae; Sirbu, Janetta; Racovitan, Dan - In: Annales Universitatis Apulensis Series Oeconomica 2 (2010) 12, pp. 15-15

Without substitute decision-maker, decision support system, through their components,can facilitate the work of … decision-maker by providing useful clues to solving problems andidentifying opportunities. Choosing an optimal solution in case … of complex decision makingprocesses, with a degree of uncertainty, involving a series of interdependent decisions …

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