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Understanding and managing zoonotic risk in the new livestock industries

Liverani, Marco; Waage, Jeff; Barnett, Tony; Pfeiffer, … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

Background: In many parts of the world, livestock production is undergoing a process of rapid intensification. The health implications of this development are uncertain. Intensification creates cheaper products, allowing more people to access animal-based foods. However, some practices...

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Risiken der Energiewende: Möglichkeiten der Risikosteuerung mithilfe eines Risk-Governance-Ansatzes

Renn, Ortwin; Dreyer, Marion - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung / Quarterly … 82 (2013) 3, pp. 29-44

Aktivitäten wie die technische-naturwissenschaftliche Risikoabschätzung, das Risikomanagement und die Risikokommunikation. Der … (technisch und gesellschaftlich), Risikoevaluation und Risikocharakterisierung, Risikomanagement sowie Risikokommunikation. Diese … ein erfolgreiches Risikomanagement der Energiewende. Darin eingebettet ist der Dialog mit der Öffentlichkeit, vor allem …

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What Influences Banks' Choice of Risk Management Tools?: Theory and Evidence

Bülbül, Dilek; Hakenes, Hendrik; Lambert, Claudia - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2013

This paper investigates the factors influencing banks' decision to engage in advanced risk management, from both a theoretical and an empirical perspective. In recent decades, credit risk management in banks has become highly sophisticated and banks have become more active and advanced in the...

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A Framework of Adaptive Risk Governance for Urban Planning

Renn, Ortwin; Klinke, Andreas - In: Sustainability 5 (2013) 5, pp. 2036-2059

The notion “risk governance” refers to an integrated concept on how to deal with public risks in general, and so-called complex, ambiguous and uncertain risks in particular. These ideas have been informed by interdisciplinary research drawing from sociological and psychological research on...

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When the U.S. Stock Market Becomes Extreme?

Aboura, Sofiane - In: Risks 2 (2014) 2, pp. 211-225

Over the last three decades, the world economy has been facing stock market crashes, currency crisis, the dot-com and real estate bubble burst, credit crunch and banking panics. As a response, extreme value theory (EVT) provides a set of ready-made approaches to risk management analysis....

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The Impact of Systemic Risk on the Diversification Benefits of a Risk Portfolio

Busse, Marc; Dacorogna, Michel; Kratz, Marie - In: Risks 2 (2014) 3, pp. 260-276

Risk diversification is the basis of insurance and investment. It is thus crucial to study the effects that could limit it. One of them is the existence of systemic risk that affects all of the policies at the same time. We introduce here a probabilistic approach to examine the consequences of...

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Global Change and Helminth Infections in Grazing Ruminants in Europe: Impacts, Trends and Sustainable Solutions

Morgan, Eric R.; Charlier, Johannes; Hendrickx, Guy; … - In: Agriculture 3 (2013) 3, pp. 484-502

Infections with parasitic helminths (nematodes and trematodes) represent a significant economic and welfare burden to the global ruminant livestock industry. The increasing prevalence of anthelmintic resistance means that current control programmes are costly and unsustainable in the long term....

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PRICE RISK MANAGEMENT IN HOG PRODUCTION THROUGH THE VERTICAL COORDINATION THEORETICAL AND PRACTICAL APPROACH

MIRONESCU, Alexandra; STEPIEN, Sebastian - In: Holistic Marketing Management Journal 2 (2012) 4, pp. 19-25

Vertical coordination is a form of price risk management which mitigates the negative effects of hog cycle, associated with price and supply fluctuations on the pig market and is aims to stabilize farm incomes. It can take the form of contracts or full vertical integration, however the level of...

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How to deal with contingent liabilities – Lessons from the Dutch experience

Hofmans, Heleen M.J.; Coevering, Clement R. van de - In: OECD Journal on Budgeting 14 (2014) 1, pp. 35-45

commission has reviewed all the guarantees, loans and financial interventions provided by the Dutch government. This review shows that policy makers often perceive these measures as a “free lunch”, do-not-ask (sufficiently high) premiums and do-not-build reserves to cover potential damages....

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Islamic Banking Regulation and Supervision: Survey Results and Challenges

Song, Inwon; Oosthuizen, Carel - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2014

The growing presence of Islamic banking needs to be accompanied by the development of effective regulation and supervision. This paper examines the results of the survey conducted by the International Monetary Fund to document international experiences and country practices related to legal and...

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