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The impact of real options on willingness to pay for mortality risk reductions

Journal of Health Economics, 2009
Public investments are dynamic in nature, and decision making must account for the uncertainty, irreversibility and potential for future learning. In this paper we adapt the theory for investment under uncertainty for a public referendum setting and perform the first empirical test to show that estimates of the value of a statistical life (VSL) from ...
Niclas A, Krüger, Mikael, Svensson
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RISK REDUCTION IN CORN PRODUCTION WITH WEATHER PUT OPTION

2012
Since the late 1990s scientists have discussed the use of weather derivatives to hedge weather conditioned yield volatility in the agricultural sector. The hedging efficiency is depending on the contract design (Weather-Index, Strike-Level, Tick-Size).
Markovic, Todor   +2 more
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Reduction of Interim Risk Through Options: An Analysis of Maximum Drawdown

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2012
Traditional risk measures such as standard deviation and CVaR are properties of the distribution of returns over a specified investment horizon. Because such fixed holding period analysis is relatively easy, and because derivative contracts are fixed-term products, the analysis of derivative strategies is normally conducted for a fixed horizon ...
Anthony Seymour   +2 more
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Predictors of BRCA-positive parents' disclosure of cancer risk and risk reduction options to offspring.

Journal of Clinical Oncology, 2010
6074 Background: Many BRCA mutation carriers (BRCA+) report discussing their genetic test results with offspring < 25 YO.
L. J. Patrick-Miller   +9 more
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Real Options and Reduction of Basic Risk of Index‐Based Climate Agricultural Insurance

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, 2020
AbstractThis article is a discussion of the concept of index‐based agricultural insurance and the possible role of real options to reduce the basic risk. Indeed, to address the consequences of variability of weather within climate, experiments based on indexed agricultural insurance have been implemented in recent years.
Le Fur, Eric, Outreville, Jean-Francois
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Therapeutic Options to Reduce Lp-PLA2 Levels and the Potential Impact on Vascular Risk Reduction

Current Treatment Options in Cardiovascular Medicine, 2013
Lipoprotein-associated phospholipase A2 (Lp-PLA2) is an enzyme involved in the metabolism of Low-density lipoprotein (LDL) to pro-inflammatory mediators. Lp-PLA2 is highly expressed in the necrotic core of atherosclerotic plaques and has been associated with atherosclerotic plaque instability. Multiple studies have shown an association between elevated
Koto, Ishida, Brett, Cucchiara
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Utility of Bayesian networks in QMRA-based evaluation of risk reduction options for recycled water

Science of The Total Environment, 2016
Quantitative microbial risk assessment (QMRA), the current method of choice for evaluating human health risks associated with disease-causing microorganisms, is often constrained by issues such as availability of required data, and inability to incorporate the multitude of factors influencing risk.
Denise Beaudequin   +3 more
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Do dividend initiations signal a reduction in risk? Evidence from the option market

Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, 2012
We investigate whether dividends convey information about the risk of a company by examining the reaction of implied volatility in the option market to the announcement of a dividend initiation. Implied volatility decreases after the announcement and the magnitude of the decline in volatility is positively related to both the magnitude of cumulative ...
Jeffrey S. Jones, Jenny Gu, Pu Liu
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