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The risk-shifting effect and the value of a warrant

Quantitative Finance, 2008
The exercise of a warrant leads to the well-known dilution phenomenon, the effects of which have been extensively studied over the last four decades. In contrast, the existing literature has paid inadequate attention to the volatility spillover between stockholders and warrant holders.
BAJO, EMANUELE, BARBI, MASSIMILIANO
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Shifted risk preferences in pathological gambling

Psychological Medicine, 2012
BackgroundPathological gambling (PG) is an impulse control disorder characterized by excessive monetary risk seeking in the face of negative consequences. We used tools from the field of behavioral economics to refine our description of risk-taking behavior in pathological gamblers.
Ligneul, R.   +4 more
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The Shift to Risk Management

2014
This chapter demonstrates a shift from traditional forms of social control and regulation, which aim at ensuring security, to risk management strategies of late modernity, which aim at pre-empting threats and insecurities. To exemplify this move, the chapter will explore the effects of the UK’s anti-terrorism policy and legislation on the socio ...
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Risk Shifting or Just Risk-Adjusted Returns

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2016
Intuitively, option-like compensation contracts induce risk-shifting behavior, confirmed by numerous empirical studies. However, theoretical work has shown that risk shifting should not happen without a definite expiration date of the option. With a sample of Commodity Trading Advisors (CTAs), we show that increases in risk (interpreted as risk ...
Jesse Blocher   +2 more
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Beyond DRGs: Shifting the Risk to Providers

Health Affairs, 1984
The future of Medicare and the entire health care system will be determined, in large part, by whether diagnosis-related groups (DRGs) lead us from prospective fixed prices to regulatory rate setting and allpayer systems, or whether they will be one step in an evolutionary process of creating incentives for increased efficiencies by appropriately ...
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Cybersecurity Risk Shifting

SSRN Electronic Journal
The Change Healthcare cyberattack of 2024 paralyzed the health care system for months, creating an exceedingly far reaching and devastating impact on providers, suppliers, and patients across the country. While the scope of the attack was unprecedented, the cyberattack itself was not new, unique, or isolated.
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Inventory, Risk Shifting, and Trade Credit

Management Science, 2017
This paper has two objectives. First, we show how debt financing distorts a retailer’s inventory decision when the retailer orders multiple items that differ in cost, revenue, or demand parameters. Taking advantage of limited liability, a debt-financed retailer favors items with a low salvage value, those with a high profit margin, and those that ...
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Extremity shifts, risk shifts and attitude shifts after group discussion

European Journal of Social Psychology, 1972
AbstractMoscovici and Zavalloni (1969) suggest that both risk shifts and attitude shifts after group discussion are examples of a general group tendency to polarize opinions. In the present experiment, using both attitude and risk items, group discussion did not make individual opinions more extreme; only the group average became more extreme.
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Default Risk, Firm's Characteristics, and Risk Shifting

2004
This paper examines the relationship between a firm's risk-shifting behavior and its default risk. Using contingent-claims approaches, we estimate the market value of a firm's assets, the volatility of asset return, and the associated default risk based on the stock prices and book value of debt.
Ming Fang, Rui Zhong
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