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This study examines optimal investment and reinsurance strategies for two competing insurers who are concerned with their relative performance. Each insurer can purchase reinsurance and invest in a financial market consisting of one risk-free asset and ...
Winfrida Felix Mwigilwa
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In this paper, we present a new heavy-tailed distribution called the heavy-tailed linear failure rate (HTLFR) distribution. Various statistical properties of the proposed distribution are derived, including the quantile function, the median, the ordinary
Ibrahim Elbatal +5 more
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ABSTRACT This paper explores Swedish consumers' protein preferences by estimating the willingness‐to‐pay (WTP) for minced meat and plant‐based proteins in pasta sauce from an in‐store experiment (n = 206) and an online discrete choice experiment (n = 517). On average, the WTP was highest for minced meat.
Emilia Mattsson +3 more
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On Time-Series Properties of Time-Varying Risk Premium in the Yen/Dollar Exchange Market [PDF]
The purpose of this paper is to characterize the changes in risk premium in the 1980s. A five-variable vector autoregressive model (VAR) is constructed to calculate a risk premium series in the foreign exchange market. The risk premium series is volatile
Takatoshi Ito, Fabio Canova
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Ambiguity aversion and variance premium
This paper offers an ambiguity-based interpretation of variance premium - the difference between risk-neutral and objective expectations of market return variance - as a compounding effect of both belief distortion and variance differential regarding the
Zhou, Hao, Miao, Jianjun, Wei, Bin
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ABSTRACT This study investigates how consumer taste and brand equity perceptions shape the acceptance of plant‐based milk products. Using a blind/informed tasting experiment, we evaluated consumers' willingness to buy (WTB) and taste perception of a plant‐based milk alternative produced by a traditional dairy brand, compared with competing plant‐based ...
Federico Parmiggiani +6 more
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The Variance Risk Premium [PDF]
This thesis investigates the empirical behavior of the variance risk premium (VRP) in the S&P 500 index. The VRP is defined as the difference between the expected realized variance under the physical measure and the risk-neutral variance derived from ...
Caneira, Mafalda Amaro
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The forex forward puzzle: The career risk hypothesis. [PDF]
Prior work variously ascribes the forward puzzle -the low slope in the Fama (1984) regression of the exchange rate change on the forward premium- to various model misspecications or statistical problems with non-stationary forward premia, but no single ...
Liu, F, Sercu, Piet
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Options\ue2 Implied Riskiness and Variance Risk Premium
We follow the methodology of Bali et al. (2015) to obtain the VIX option-implied riskiness and investigates whether it affects variance risk premium. First, our results show that VIX option-implied riskiness can predict positively changes in the variance
Lin, Yu-Jhih
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ABSTRACT Nutritional information is very important in the food choices of consumers. However, when they are too scientific or technical, they have the potential to confuse consumers, resulting in information asymmetry and dissuading them from making beneficial choices.
Edeoba W. Edobor +3 more
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