Thema Basel II / Risikomanagement.Inzwischen wurden an der Fachhochschule bereits mehrere Forschungsprojektezum Themenkreis … fair value-Bewertung vonVersicherungskontrakten. Dieses für die Versicherungswirtschaft aktuelle Thema wird sicher …

Intermountain West on the economic effectiveness of risk management alternatives in an agricultural operation. This research is not … meant to be an exhaustive comparison of every potential combination of alternatives and risk scenarios. Instead, specific … parameters such as farm size, crops grown, risk attitudes and risk management strategies are set to guide the research and offer …

This paper explores and analyzes farmers’risk perceptions, risk management instruments’ demandand usage in five Member … several sources of farms’ risk and incomeinstability, and at the actual means that farmers pursueto manage and face them. The … second area focuses onthe demand for risk management instruments.The paper’s objective is to determine the factors …

. It suggest a microeconometric method for measuring flooding related risk preferences of affectedindividuals. The method …-experimental approach to measure differences in the risk attitudes of farmers located in highflooding risk areas versus farmers located in … low flooding risk areas is followed. Changes in flooding risk relatedbehaviour over time is analysed and marginal effects …

Neoclassical analysis of the labor market and its institutions. A systematic development of the theory of labor supply …

), aggregation method (average versus weighted by money, a proxy for confidence), and incentive (not incentive compatible versus … respondents to state their confidence, using my method, which induces the respondents to reveal confidence, there is a sizable and … statically significant positive relationship between confidence and the accuracy of individual-level expectations. This positive …

management confidence. In a unique sample of US firms that have existed for over 25 years we find management confidence, as … management confidence is higher firms have higher levels of debt. This result is robust to different definitions of leverage and … confidence as well as different model specifications. This confirms the theoretical arguments in behavioural finance that …

), and outcome confidence (Zakay and Tsal 1993), since perceived ambiguity regardingthe effectiveness of the novel health-risk …The underlying components of protection motivation theory (PMT; Rogers 1983) areexplored through choice experiment … likely affectceliacs’ propensity to use a novel health-risk reducing product. Those four groups ofvariables that are aimed to …

’ confidence (the drivers traditionally studied in the literature) in the behaviour of investment under such atypical cyclical … negatively to interest rate rises, while enhanced agents’ confidence and greater demand have the opposite effect. •In the absence … agents’ confidence and demand operate with shorter lags. Given these lags, the interest rate increases and the decline in …