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2010
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Understanding and Coping with the Increasing Risk of System-Level Accidents

By: Dutch Leonard and Arnold M. Howitt

The world has seen a number of recent events in which major systems came to a standstill, not from one cause alone but from the interaction of a combination of causes. System-level accidents occur when anomalies or errors in different parts of an interconnected system... View Details

Keywords: Economics; Globalization; Risk Management; Boundaries; System Shocks

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16 Sep 2019
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Crowdsourcing Is Helping Hollywood Reduce the Risk of Movie-Making

Success at the movie box office can be difficult to predict. For every surprise hit film like Crazy Rich Asians, there’s a massive flame-out like Justice League. Unlike television, where a station can test a pilot before committing to a series, studios must spend... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Motion Pictures & Video

18 Jun 2018
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A Measure of Risk Appetite for the Macroeconomy

Keywords: by Carolin E. Pflueger, Emil Siriwardane, and Adi Sunderam

March 2016
Article

The Role of Investor Gut Feel in Managing Complexity and Extreme Risk

By: Laura Huang

Securing financial resources from investors is a key challenge for many early stage entrepreneurial ventures. Given the inherent uncertainty surrounding a decision to invest in these ventures, prior research has found that experienced investors rely heavily on their... View Details

Keywords: Angel Investors; Gut Feel; Intuition; Entrepreneurship; Finance; Risk and Uncertainty; Complexity; Decision Making

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Contract Rights and Risk Aversion: Foreign Banks and the Mexican Economy, 1997-2004

In 1997 Mexicos banking laws were reformed, allowing foreign banks, for the first time since the nineteenth century, to purchase controlling interests in the countrys largest banks. Foreign banks controlled 16 percent of Mexican bank assets in March 1997. By June... View Details

12 Mar 2009
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Inflation Bets or Deflation Hedges? The Changing Risks of Nominal Bonds

Keywords: by John Y. Campbell, Adi Sunderam & Luis M. Viceira

1997
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Maximizing Corporate Shareholder Value Using Risk Profile Dynamics

By: Marc L Bertoneche and Samir Asaf

Keywords: Value Creation; Business and Shareholder Relations; Risk and Uncertainty; Risk Management

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1993
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Interest Rate Parity and the Exchange Risk Premium

By: E. S. Mayfield and R. Murphy

Keywords: Interest Rates; Risk and Uncertainty

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September 1982
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Risk Aversion and the Negotiation of Insurance Contracts

By: R. Kihlstrom and A. E. Roth

Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; Negotiation; Insurance

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January 2005
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Business Groups and Risk Sharing Around the World

By: Tarun Khanna and Yishay Yafeh

Keywords: Groups and Teams; Risk and Uncertainty

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Self-environment relationship and its effect on decisions under risk and uncertainty

My research seek to better understand the main cognitive and social abilities that guide our judgments, and the ways they interact with aspects of the situation to shape humans' decisions. It is currently comprised of three related... View Details