Title:Rising Intolerance in Greek Political Life
Author(s):TRIANDAFYLLIDOU, Anna; KOUKI, HaraDate:2012Type of Publication:Technical ReportSeries/Report no.:ACCEPT-PLURALISM
Title:Risk and Personal Information: the Finality Principle and Data Protection in the Brazilian Legal System
Author(s):DONEDA, Danilo; VIOLA DE AZEVEDO CUNHA, MarioDate:2009Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The use of personal data has become a fundamental tool for the development of various activities both in
public and private domains.
In industries that work with the risk as a key factor, such as insurance and financial ...
Title:Risk and Strict Liability: The distinct examples of Germany, the US and Russia
Author(s):BRÜGGEMEIER, GertDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:Enlightenment, natural law and economic liberalism engendered the grand concept of modern private law. Nearly simultaneously the ongoing process of industrial revolution paved the path into another modernity. Its new ...
Title:Risk Attitudes and Measures of Value for Risky Lotteries
Author(s):LEWANDOWSKI, MichalDate:2010Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:The topic of this thesis is decision-making under risk. I focus my analysis on expected utility theory by von Neumann and Morgenstern. I am especially interested in modeling risk attitudes represented by Bernoulli utility ...
Title:Risk Aversion, Wealth, and Background Risk
Author(s):GUISO, Luigi; PAIELLA, MonicaDate:2008Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:We use household survey data to construct a direct measure of absolute risk aversion based on the maximum price a consumer is willing to pay for a risky security. We relate this measure to consumer's endowments and attributes ...
Title:Risk Aversion, Wealth, and Background Risk
Author(s):GUISO, Luigi; PAIELLA, MonicaDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:We use household survey data to construct a direct measure of absolute risk aversion based on the maximum price a consumer is willing to pay for a risky security. We relate this measure to consumers.endowments and attributes ...
Title:Risk Management in the Energy Markets and Value-at-Risk Modelling: A hybrid approach
Author(s):ANDRIOSOPOULOS, Kostas; NOMIKOS, NikosDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:This paper proposes a set of VaR models appropriate to capture the dynamics of energy prices and subsequently quantify energy price risk by calculating VaR and ES measures. Amongst the competing VaR methodologies evaluated ...
Title:Risk Preference and Indirect Utility in Portfolio-Choice Problems
Author(s):ROY, Santanu; WAGENVOORT, Rien J.L.M.Date:1996Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:We consider a portfolio-choice problem with one risky and one safe asset, where the utility function exhibits decreasing absolute risk aversion (DARA). We show that the indirect utility function of the portfolio-choice ...
Title:Risk Regulation in the European Union: Between enlargement and internationalization
Author(s):MAJONE, GiandomenicoDate:2003Type of Publication:BookAbstract:The 2002-3 European Forum organized by the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies of the EUI dealt with regulatory cooperation and regulatory competition in an integrating world economy. Within this broad theme, a ...
Title:Risk Spillovers and Hedging: Why do firms invest too much in systemic risk?
Author(s):WILLEMS, Bert; MORBEE, JorisDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:In this paper we show that free entry decisions may be socially ineffcient, even in a perfectly competitive homogeneous goods market with non-lumpy investments. In our model, inefficient entry decisions are the result of ...
Title:Risk-sharing and contagion in networks
Author(s):CABRALES, Antonio; GOTTARDI, Piero; VEGA-REDONDO, FernandoDate:2013Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:The aim of this paper is to investigate how the capacity of an economic system to absorb shocks depends on the specific pattern of interconnections established among financial firms. The key trade-off at work is between ...