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It is known from the literature on uncertainty that in cases where individuals express a preference for a high win-probability bet over a bet with high winnings they nevertheless will bid more to obtain the bet with high winnings. We investigate whether a similar phenomenon applies in the...
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Orderings of income distribution in terms of inequality should be closely related to orderings in terms of risk. Using … a novel mult-country questgionnaire experiment we examine the basis for this claim in terms of respondents …' distributional perceptions. We show that in terms of both inequality and risk individuals consistently reject one of the standard …
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and the determination of the optimal asset allocation using discount rates that ap-propriately reflect default risk. We …
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The allocation of UK personal sector wealth across five broad asset categories (net financial wealth, housing (and durable assets) wealth, state pension wealth, private pension wealth, and human capital) is investigated using the FAIDS (financial AIDS) model. Apart from total wealth and returns,...
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investigate a model that incorporates three sources of risk: asset risk and salary (or labour-income) risk in the accumulation … phase; and interest-rate risk at the point of retirement. We propose a new form of terminal utility function, incorporating … presence of non-hedgeable salary risk. We compare the performance of stochastic lifestlying with some popular strategies used …
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Globalizing knowledge economies foster conditions that intensify the role and value of organizational reputation risk … reputation risk. Having noted the ambivalence that surrounds ‘risk positions’, we present a re-definition of reputation risk that … encompasses the dynamics of contemporary risk and trust relationships. We explore the capacity of different trust forms to reduce …
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In this paper we introduce concepts that build a theoretical notion of reputation risk and establish the need to extend … our approach to managing such risk.. The existing literature on reputation risk has tended to be reactive and focus on …. We explore the notion of ‘active trust’ as a way of redesigning approaches to the management of risk. Our analysis …
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We examine individuals’ distributional orderings in a number of contexts. This is done by using a questionnaire-experiment … flavours include inequality, risk, social welfare and justice. The issue of personal involvement in the distributional …
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