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Risk Measures [PDF]

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The present review of (financial) risk measures, prepared for the Encyclopaedia of Actuarial Science, first distinguishes two conceptions of risk. Risk of the first kind conceives risk as the magnitude of (one- or two-sided) deviations from a target ...
Albrecht, Peter
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Conservation Payments under Risk: A Stochastic Dominance Approach [PDF]

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Conservation payments can be used to preserve forest and agroforest systems in developing countries. To explain landowners’ land-use decisions and determine the appropriate conservation payments, it is necessary to focus on risk associated with ...
G. Cornelis van Kooten   +3 more
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Pessimistic portfolio allocation and Choquet expected utility [PDF]

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Recent developments in the theory of choice under uncertainty and risk yield a pessimistic decision theory that replaces the classical expected utility criterion with a Choquet expectation that accentuates the likelihood of the least favorable outcomes ...
Gilbert W. Bassett Jr   +2 more
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