Overreaction to Fearsome Risks
Fearsome risks are those that stimulate strong emotional responses. Such risks, which usually involve high consequences, tend to have low probabilities, since life today is no longer nasty, brutish and short.
Zeckhauser, Richard
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Identification of Lagged Duration Dependence in Multiple Spells Competing Risks Models [PDF]
We show non-parametric identification of lagged duration dependence in mixed proportional hazard models for duration data, in the presence of competing risks and consecutive spells.
Guillaume HORNY, Matteo PICCHIO
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Risks Assessment of Trade Services
The goal of the research is to study types of risks, their identification and classification and assessment possibilities in activities of Latvian trade services enterprises.
Jansone, Inga, Voronova, Irina
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Evaluating Lotteries, Risks, and Risk-mitigation Programs [PDF]
Two experiments were designed to explore the existence of systematic differences in risk perceptions and risk attitudes between Chinese and U.S. participants.
Fischbeck, Paul, Wang, Mei
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Does positive dependence between individual risks increase stop-loss premiums?. [PDF]
Actuaries intuitively feel that positive correlations between individual risks reveal a more dangerous situation compared to independence. The purpose of this short note is to formalize this natural idea.
Denuit, M, Ribas, C, Dhaene, Jan
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Advising on Antidepressant Use in Pregnancy: Are We All on the Same Page? [PDF]
Asia Pac PsychiatryBroughton LC, Hughes N, Zeng J, Smith A.
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Incomplete Information in a Long Run Risks Model of Asset Pricing [PDF]
We study the effects of incorporating incomplete information in the recently developed long run risks model of asset pricing. Studying the effects of incomplete information in such a setting is tractable, especially in the homoskedastic case with no ...
Prasad V. Bidarkota
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Audience Interpretation of Risks in Health Promotion Campaigns About Underage Drinking: Qualitative Interviews With Parents of Adolescents. [PDF]
Health Promot J AustrNguyen HV.
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Ergonomic Risks in the Printing Company and Workers’ Wellbeing
The aim of the study was to analyze the ergonomic risks in the printing company and to study the impact of ergonomics risks on employees’ wellbeing. The study involved 67 company workers aged 18 to 67 years. In the study, physical load evaluation methods
Kaļķis, Valdis +4 more
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Identifiability and estimation of the sign of a covariate effect in the competing risks model. [PDF]
It is well known that the competing risks model is identified if the dependence structure between risks (the copula function) is known or assumed. Special cases include independence of risks or independent censoring.
Ralf A. Wilke, Simon M.S. Lo
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