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White Papers
The HP Enterprise Risk Management Solution
Nov 2006
This paper explains HP Enterprise Risk Management Solution, a pre-integrated, prepackaged solution including a comprehensive physical data model, a high-performance database server, and consulting...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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White Papers
Enterprise Risk Management: Starting From Scratch
Dec 2005
Enterprise risk management is an approach to evaluating a wide spectrum of diverse risks within an integrated portfolio, rather than in separate silos. This allows the risk manager to observe and...
Provided by Liberty Mutual Insurance
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White Papers
Governance And Risk Management In Manufacturing: ERM - Not Just For Big Companies
Mar 2009
Executives and the Board are now confident that they understand the company's current major risk areas and the priority that each should receive in its Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) efforts....
Provided by Deloitte Development
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White Papers
Risk Intelligence: From Theory To Practice
Nov 2007
In a business environment attuned to a greater awareness of risk, many large organizations have responded with the development of an integrated approach to risk management frequently labeled...
Provided by Deloitte & Touche LLP
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White Papers
A Strong And Effective Enterprise Risk Management Program Can Exploit The Opportunities
Jan 2009
In today's business environment, the effective management of cross-enterprise risk is a key factor in planning for any organization's long-term viability. While there has always been a conceptual...
Provided by Marsh
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White Papers
Information Security And The Board: Keeping Risk Out And Letting Business In
Jan 2009
Virtually any business today stands or falls by the security, integrity and availability of its digital information. This reflects the pivotal role played by sophisticated IT systems, not only in...
Provided by Accenture
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White Papers
Lock It Up Or Set It Free?: A Risk Intelligent Approach To Data And Intellectual Property
Jan 2010
As companies gain visibility into the actual risks and value associated with their information assets, a schism can develop between security-minded professionals who want restriction and...
Provided by Deloitte LLP
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White Papers
The Risk Management Mandate
May 2006
Enterprise business leaders are increasingly treating technological and business innovation, and the opportunities and risks they entail, as inextricably intertwined - and managing them...
Provided by Microsoft
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White Papers
Embracing Enterprise Risk Management
Jan 2006
In the past, insurance companies would typically manage risk for their diverse business lines separately, without taking into account the correlation of risks between each business line. But now,...
Provided by SS&C Technologies
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White Papers
Expiring Terrorism Insurance Act Threatens to Leave Businesses Exposed
Jun 2006
The federal government's agreement to back companies that offer terrorism insurance expires at the end of the year, bringing the prospect of sky-high premiums and scarce coverage for local...
Provided by American City Business Journals
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White Papers
Terror Insurance Lures a Few
Jun 2006
Bay Area companies are buying terrorism insurance in greater numbers than counterparts in some parts of the country - excluding hot spots such as New York City and Washington, D.C. - but sales are...
Provided by American City Business Journals
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White Papers
Insurance: Half U.S. Businesses Lack Terrorism Insurance
Jun 2006
The total insured-property losses from the September 11 terrorist attacks are expected to hit more than $40 billion, according to the Insurance Information Institute, a nonprofit organization...
Provided by American City Business Journals
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White Papers
Terrorist Attacks Put Reinsurance Lobbyists on Alert
Jun 2006
Terrorism seems to be on everyone's mind following the July 7 attack on the London underground. It is certainly on the mind of Massachusetts' insurance companies, which along with their national...
Provided by American City Business Journals
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White Papers
Insurance Companies Rank St. Louis Low Terrorism Risk
Jun 2006
When it comes to insurance loss estimates in the event of a potential terrorist attack, St. Louis ranks on the same level as major metropolitan areas such as Miami, Denver and Dallas. It also...
Provided by American City Business Journals
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White Papers
Creating A Risk Intelligent Infrastructure Getting Risk Intelligence Done
May 2010
This paper, based on a Deloitte Dbriefs presentation titled "Creating a Risk Intelligent Infrastructure," gives our most current thinking on building effective risk management practices into the...
Provided by Deloitte LLP
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White Papers
Risk Intelligent Governance: A Practical Guide For Boards
Sep 2009
This paper aims to give board members a practical, action-oriented guide to enabling and executing Risk Intelligent governance. At the heart of the paper are six sections describing "Areas of...
Provided by Deloitte LLP
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White Papers
What's The Password? Taking Control Of Identity Access Management
Apr 2010
Control of information has never been more critical to an organization, its employees, vendors, and business partners. Yet never has it been more difficult. Unauthorized system access leading to...
Provided by Deloitte LLP
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White Papers
Integrated Enterprise Risk Management: The path To Commercial Excellence In The Chemical Industry
Dec 2009
This paper discusses what capabilities chemical companies need to develop to manage market instability to help deliver consistent and reliable earnings growth. The last two years have been...
Provided by Accenture
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White Papers
Enterprise Risk Management And The New Market Realities: Five Points To Help Achieve High Performance
Mar 2010
Climbing out of a recession can be heavy going. At the same time, it can be a stimulating wake-up call. What companies are waking up to in the aftermath of the financial crisis is a complex world...
Provided by Accenture
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White Papers
Dangerous Exposures: Risk And The Bottom Line
Dec 2008
Nine days after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in New York City, Kent Smetters, then deputy assistant secretary of economic policy at the U.S. Treasury, met with...
Provided by University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
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White Papers
Private Information, Limited Commitment, And Risk Sharing
Aug 2007
This paper explores a model that considers an exchange economy with a continuum of agents, each of whom is subject to idiosyncratic endowment shocks. It studies efficient allocations subject to...
Provided by Duke University (Fuqua-Global)
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White Papers
Risk And Return In Bond, Currency And Equity Markets
Jun 2007
This paper presents a general equilibrium long-run risks model that can simultane-
Provided by Duke University (Fuqua-Global)
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White Papers
The Characteristics Of Politically Connected Firms
Jun 2007
Evidence from firms in 47 countries shows that companies connected with officials have higher leverage and higher market shares, but they underperform nonconnected companies on an accounting...
Provided by Purdue University (Krannert)
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White Papers
The Quality Of Accounting Information In Politically Connected Firms
Dec 2007
Recent studies have documented systematic exchanges of favors between politicians and firms, and that connected firms, on average gain from political ties. Since these ties are often to a top...
Provided by Purdue University (Krannert)
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White Papers
Large Shareholder Diversification And Corporate Risk-Taking
Jan 2010
Using new data for the universe of firms covered in Amadeus, the paper reconstructs the equity portfolios of shareholders who hold equity stakes in private and publicly-traded European firms. This...
Provided by Purdue University (Krannert)
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White Papers
Securitization And Bank Performance
Sep 2009
Theory suggests that securitization provides financial institutions with an opportunity to lower the cost of funding; improve credit risk management and increase profitability. In practice,...
Provided by City University of London (Cass)
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White Papers
Private Equity In Africa - Lessons Learned
Jan 2010
Africa represents a colossal investment opportunity. Containing 23 percent of the world's landmass and nearly one billion people, the continent has exceeded world average growth for the past eight...
Provided by Thunderbird School of Global Management
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White Papers
Do Information Security Disclosures Reflect Future Incidents?
Mar 2009
This paper investigates how the nature of security related disclosures in financial reports is associated with breach announcements in the subsequent period. First build a decision tree to...
Provided by Purdue University (Krannert)
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White Papers
Becoming Founder Role-Identity Affects Entrepreneurial Transitions And Persistence In Founding
Sep 2009
This paper develops the concept of founder role identity and delineates how two aspects, centrality and complexity, affect potential founders' ability to exit a current work role in order to...
Provided by INSEAD
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White Papers
Political Connections And The Process Of Going Public: Evidence From China
Feb 2009
This paper examines how political connections impact the process of going public. Specifically, the authors test how political connections impact the pricing of the newly offered shares, the...
Provided by City University of London (Cass)
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White Papers
On Pricing and Hedging In The Swaption Market: How Many Factors, Really?
Sep 2006
This paper examines how the number of stochastic drivers and their associated volatility structures affect pricing accuracy and hedging performance in the swaption market. In spite of the fact...
Provided by Case Western Reserve University (Weatherhead)
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White Papers
Sharing Risk Efficiently Under Suboptimal Punishments For Defection
Aug 2007
The paper studies efficient risk sharing under limited enforcement (or "limited commitment") constraints determined by the threat of punishment after misbehavior. As in Kocherlakota (1996), the...
Provided by Purdue University (Krannert)
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White Papers
Investor Attitudes Towards Risk And Uncertainty And Reactions To Market Turmoil
Jun 2010
In order to assess how individual small investors have reacted to recent adverse events in world financial markets and whether these reactions are mediated by their risk attitudes, a survey was...
Provided by Columbia University
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White Papers
Is Political Risk Company-Specific? The Market Side Of The Yukos Affair
Sep 2006
The Yukos affair, a state-led assault on controlling shareholders of a private Russian oil company, once again demonstrated the shaky nature of property rights in emerging markets. Toughening of...
Provided by Bilkent University
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White Papers
Government Backed Insurance Of Extreme Systemic Risk
Dec 2008
Governments' worldwide have recapitalised their banks, but this has not been enough to persuade banks to lend again. Despite large interest rate reductions the supply of credit to households and...
Provided by City University of London (Cass)
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White Papers
Risk Education In-Depth Series (Part 1): Reprogramming An Enterprise
Apr 2008
Ask the department chairman at the nation's largest risk management and insurance academic program, and he's quite clear and emphatic."Our program today is fundamentally different today from what...
Provided by LRP Publications
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White Papers
News And Sovereign Default Risk In Small Open Economies
May 2010
This paper builds a model of sovereign debt in which default risk, interest rates, and debt depend not only on current fundamentals but also on news about future fundamentals. News shocks affect...
Provided by Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
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White Papers
A Solution To The Default Risk-Business Cycle Disconnect
Mar 2008
Models of business cycles in emerging economies explain the negative correlation between country spreads and output by modeling default risk as an exogenous interest rate on working capital....
Provided by Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
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White Papers
Protection For Free? The Political Economy Of U.S. Tariff Suspensions
Sep 2010
This paper studies the political influence of individual firms on Congressional decisions to suspend tariffs on U.S. imports of intermediate goods. The authors develop a model in which firms...
Provided by International Monetary Fund
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White Papers
Resource Windfalls And Emerging Market Sovereign Bond Spreads: The Role Of Political Institutions
Jul 2010
The authors examine the effect that revenue windfalls from international commodity price shocks have on sovereign bond spreads using panel data for 30 emerging market economies during the period...
Provided by International Monetary Fund
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White Papers
Globalization And The Evolution Of Bank Capital Regulation
Oct 2007
This paper traces the evolution of bank capital requirements from the 1800s, when it was a simple ratio, to the complex models used in Basel I and II. It goes on to introduce Enterprise Risk...
Provided by University of South Florida
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White Papers
Private-Activity Municipal Bonds: The Political Economy Of Volume Cap Allocation
Sep 2010
State governments allocate authority, under a federally imposed cap, to issue tax-exempt bonds that fund "Private activities" such as industrial expansion, student loans, and low-income housing....
Provided by Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland
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White Papers
Can Political Factors Explain The Behavior Of Stock Prices Beyond The Standard Present Value Models?
Jul 2007
This paper documents that political factors can be linked to the part of stock prices that cannot be explained by the standard present value models. The non-fundamental component of stock market...
Provided by University of Leicester
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White Papers
Managerial Biases And Selective Hedging
Nov 2007
Using data on the selective hedging activity of a sample of 92 North American gold mining firms, the authors find that the degree of selective hedging is related to past performance of derivative...
Provided by National University of Singapore
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White Papers
Political Institutions, Voter Turnout And Policy Outcomes
Nov 2008
The authors question whether the impact of constitutions on economic outcomes (Persson and Tabellini, 2004) is direct. They show that voter turnout is a channel through which forms of government...
Provided by Trinity College Dublin
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White Papers
Politics And Fiscal Policy Under Lemass: A Theoretical Appraisal
May 2009
Lemass rejected Whitaker's recommendations that direct taxes be reduced and public investment shifted from social to productive areas. This was arguably done for political reasons and because...
Provided by Trinity College Dublin
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White Papers
Balancing Competimg Demands: Position-Taking And Election Proximity In The European Parliament
Jul 2009
Parties value unity, yet, members of parliament face competing demands, giving them incentives to deviate from the party. For Members of the European Parliament (MEPs), these competing demands are...
Provided by Trinity College Dublin
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White Papers
Discrimination, Exclusion And Immigrants' Confidence In Public Institutions In Europe
Mar 2010
What determines the confidence of immigrants in public institutions? Using pooled data from the European Social Survey from 26 countries, the paper examines whether processes of social exclusion...
Provided by Trinity College Dublin
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White Papers
The Impact Of Blog Recommendations On Security Prices And Trading Volumes
Sep 2007
Previous research and recent statements by the Securities and Exchange Commission indicate that e-mail spam and message board posts are often used to manipulate markets in a variation of the...
Provided by University of Oklahoma
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White Papers
Never Judge A Book By Its Cover - What Security Analysts Have To Say Beyond Recommendations
Sep 2007
The authors study analyzes the market reaction to the complete content of a large sample of analysts' reports in the period from 2002 to 2004 for the German market. In particular, they explore...
Provided by Universität Tübingen
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White Papers
Surveying American Jews And Their Views On Middle East Politics: The Current Situation And A Proposal For A New Approach
May 2007
This working paper takes up three related themes. In section 1, the author briefly describes the issues relevant to surveying American Jews and highlights the importance of authoritative national...
Provided by Levy Economics Institute
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White Papers
The American Jewish Committee's Annual Opinion Surveys: An Assessment Of Sample Quality
Jul 2007
The American Jewish Committee (AJC) surveys of Jewish opinion are unique both in being conducted annually and in the subject matter covered. This paper assesses the quality of these samples. The...
Provided by Levy Economics Institute
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White Papers
Why Do Voters Dismantle Checks And Balances?
Aug 2011
Voters often dismantle constitutional checks and balances on the executive. If such checks and balances limit presidential abuses of power and rents, why do voters support their removal? The...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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White Papers
A Political Theory Of Populism
Aug 2011
When voters fear that politicians may have a right-wing bias or that they may be influenced or corrupted by the rich elite, signals of true left-wing conviction are valuable. As a consequence,...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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White Papers
News Corp. Phone Hacking Scandal Now Political
Jul 2011
The author says the phone hacking scandal surrounding Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation has become more of a political story than a business story. "What's been exposed here is the overly-cozy...
Provided by University of Notre Dame
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Webcasts
GreenBiz-BSR Leadership Dinner: Part 2
Feb 2009
GreenBiz.com gathered several prominent environmental journalists and the vice president of advisory services at Business for Social Responsibility (BSR) for a panel discussion on how the 2008...
Provided by GreenBiz Group
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Webcasts
GreenBiz-BSR Leadership Dinner: Part 3
Feb 2009
GreenBiz.com gathered several prominent environmental journalists and the vice president of advisory services at Business for Social Responsibility (BSR) for a panel discussion on how the 2008...
Provided by GreenBiz Group
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Webcasts
Hacking The Earth Without Voiding Its Warranty
Feb 2010
Geoengineering may be the only solution to our myriad environmental crises, but that doesn't mean the world should rush into it headlong. In this webcast, the presenter talks about how we can keep...
Provided by GreenBiz Group
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White Papers
Do Local Elections In Non-Democracies Increase Accountability? Evidence From Rural China
Apr 2011
The authors use unique survey data to study whether the introduction of local elections in China made local leaders more accountable towards local constituents. They develop a simple model to...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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White Papers
Data Breaches And Identity Theft
Sep 2008
This paper presents a monetary-theoretic model to study the implications of networks' collection of personal identifying data and data security on each other's incidence and costs of identity...
Provided by Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
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White Papers
The Political Economy Of Fiscal Deficits And Government Production
Mar 2009
This paper analyzes a framework where policymakers decide how to spend public resources on physical capital and labor in order to produce two public goods. Candidate policymakers disagree about...
Provided by Norges Bank
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Webcasts
Iran; Cash For Clunkers; The Federal Deficit
Jun 2009
Brookings scholars ponder the developments in Iran as the government cracks down on protests over the presidential election; the public weighs in on the "Cash for clunkers" legislation; and vice...
Provided by Brookings Institution
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Webcasts
President Obamas First Six Months In Office; Kurdish Elections In Iraq
Jul 2009
In this webcast, Brookings experts release a composite index of national and global trends for the first six months of President Obama's term, lining them up against the same point in the five...
Provided by Brookings Institution
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Webcasts
Partisanship On Capitol Hill
Mar 2010
Brookings takes an in-depth look at the polarizing effects of partisanship on Capitol Hill. Senior Fellow assesses the situation and offers some insight into how this way of doing business will...
Provided by Brookings Institution
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Webcasts
The Politics And Perils Of Guantánamo
Mar 2010
Opposition to trying alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed in civilian court has led the Obama administration to consider a military tribunal instead. Meanwhile, controversy continues over...
Provided by Brookings Institution
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Webcasts
Solutions For The Federal Deficit
Oct 2010
The national debt and our yearly deficits have reached staggering heights, just as the nation struggles to recover from a deep and persistent recession, says the presenter, senior fellow and...
Provided by Brookings Institution
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Webcasts
Religion And Politics
Oct 2010
Is there a relationship between religion and politics? Yes. Can faith-based doctrine influence election outcomes? Absolutely. Does this present a conflict with the doctrines put forth by the...
Provided by Brookings Institution
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Webcasts
Assessment Of The 2010 Midterm Elections
Nov 2010
In this webcast, the presenter discusses the results of the 2010 midterm elections. Analyzing the rise of the tea party movement and the evolving attitudes of the American electorate, the...
Provided by Brookings Institution
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Webcasts
The Politics And Process Of Congressional Redistricting
Jan 2011
Now that the 2010 Census is concluded, states will begin the process of reapportionment - re-drawing voting district lines to account for population shifts. A Nonresident Senior Fellow, the...
Provided by Brookings Institution
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Webcasts
Redistricting For Political Gains
Apr 2011
Every decade since 1790, a census of the entire U.S. population is used by state governments to apportion representatives in the U.S. House of Representatives. But the redrawing of congressional...
Provided by Brookings Institution
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Webcasts
African Elections And Democracy
Jun 2011
Nations across Africa are holding elections, a good sign for emerging democracies on the continent. However, the presenter says the quality of governance in African nations varies widely. Some...
Provided by Brookings Institution
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White Papers
Term Limits And Electoral Accountability
Dec 2006
Periodic elections are the main instrument through which voters can hold politicians accountable. From this perspective term limits, which restrict voters' ability to reward politicians with...
Provided by Centre for Economic Performance
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White Papers
Strengthening The Roles Of Political Parties In Public Accountability - A Case Study Of A New Approach In Political Party Assistance
Jun 2011
Donors in development cooperation increasingly emphasize the importance of public accountability in developing countries for the good functioning of democratic institutions, governance and the...
Provided by United Nations University
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White Papers
Accountability Via Central Database Regimes In The Context Of NSW Political Donations
Jul 2010
The authors examine the extent to which the NSW political finance disclosure regime promotes accountability in order to both improve this case as well as understand how accountability might be...
Provided by Macquarie University
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White Papers
Does Timing Of Elections Instigate Riots? A Subnational Study Of 16 Indian States, 1958 - 2004
Oct 2008
The authors investigate whether timing of the elections leads to riots or not within India. In other words, does timing of elections instigate riots? The theoretical underpinning is that an...
Provided by University of Michigan
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White Papers
Does Decentralization Matter For Regional Disparities? A Cross-Country Analysis
May 2009
This paper looks at the relationship between fiscal and political decentralization and the evolution of regional inequalities in a panel of 26 countries - 19 developed and 7 developing - for the...
Provided by IMDEA
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White Papers
Decentralization, Happiness And The Perception Of Institutions
Apr 2011
This paper analyses whether the different powers and resources at the disposal of local and regional governments across Europe deliver greater satisfaction with political institutions and lead to...
Provided by IMDEA
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White Papers
Deep Democracy ; A Political And Social Economy Approach
Feb 2007
The main purpose of this paper is to offer a somewhat novel theory of deep democracy from a political and social economy perspective. The theory of deep democracy presented here makes a...
Provided by University of Tokyo
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White Papers
Corruption, Political Connections, And Municipal Finance
Jun 2007
The authors exploit unique features of the U.S. municipal bond underwriting market to assess how political integrity affects primary financial market outcomes. They show that state corruption and...
Provided by University of Tennessee
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White Papers
Employment Risk And Household Formation: Evidence From Differences In Firing Costs
Jan 2008
The rate of new household formation among young adults who live with their parents has decreased in the last twenty years, especially in Southern Europe. At the same time, exposure to the risk...
Provided by Banco de España
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White Papers
Political Marketing: A Conceptual Framework
Jan 2009
The paper presents a broad overview of the concept of political marketing and its significance in the contemporary era of information revolution and democratic resurgence. The paper provides...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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White Papers
Power, Politics And Program Management
Apr 2007
Joseph Algere, a veteran program manager, is a bit perplexed and more than a little frustrated. He just returned to his office from a meeting with the senior manager of his division. Staring at...
Provided by PM World Today
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White Papers
Enterprise Risk Management: Starting From Scratch
Dec 2005
Enterprise risk management is an approach to evaluating a wide spectrum of diverse risks within an integrated portfolio, rather than in separate silos. This allows the risk manager to observe and...
Provided by Liberty Mutual Insurance
-
White Papers
Governance And Risk Management In Manufacturing: ERM - Not Just For Big Companies
Mar 2009
Executives and the Board are now confident that they understand the company's current major risk areas and the priority that each should receive in its Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) efforts....
Provided by Deloitte Development
-
White Papers
Risk Intelligence: From Theory To Practice
Nov 2007
In a business environment attuned to a greater awareness of risk, many large organizations have responded with the development of an integrated approach to risk management frequently labeled...
Provided by Deloitte & Touche LLP
-
White Papers
A Strong And Effective Enterprise Risk Management Program Can Exploit The Opportunities
Jan 2009
In today's business environment, the effective management of cross-enterprise risk is a key factor in planning for any organization's long-term viability. While there has always been a conceptual...
Provided by Marsh
-
White Papers
Information Security And The Board: Keeping Risk Out And Letting Business In
Jan 2009
Virtually any business today stands or falls by the security, integrity and availability of its digital information. This reflects the pivotal role played by sophisticated IT systems, not only in...
Provided by Accenture
-
White Papers
Lock It Up Or Set It Free?: A Risk Intelligent Approach To Data And Intellectual Property
Jan 2010
As companies gain visibility into the actual risks and value associated with their information assets, a schism can develop between security-minded professionals who want restriction and...
Provided by Deloitte LLP
-
White Papers
The Risk Management Mandate
May 2006
Enterprise business leaders are increasingly treating technological and business innovation, and the opportunities and risks they entail, as inextricably intertwined - and managing them...
Provided by Microsoft
-
White Papers
Embracing Enterprise Risk Management
Jan 2006
In the past, insurance companies would typically manage risk for their diverse business lines separately, without taking into account the correlation of risks between each business line. But now,...
Provided by SS&C Technologies
-
White Papers
Expiring Terrorism Insurance Act Threatens to Leave Businesses Exposed
Jun 2006
The federal government's agreement to back companies that offer terrorism insurance expires at the end of the year, bringing the prospect of sky-high premiums and scarce coverage for local...
Provided by American City Business Journals
-
White Papers
Terror Insurance Lures a Few
Jun 2006
Bay Area companies are buying terrorism insurance in greater numbers than counterparts in some parts of the country - excluding hot spots such as New York City and Washington, D.C. - but sales are...
Provided by American City Business Journals
-
White Papers
Insurance: Half U.S. Businesses Lack Terrorism Insurance
Jun 2006
The total insured-property losses from the September 11 terrorist attacks are expected to hit more than $40 billion, according to the Insurance Information Institute, a nonprofit organization...
Provided by American City Business Journals
-
White Papers
Terrorist Attacks Put Reinsurance Lobbyists on Alert
Jun 2006
Terrorism seems to be on everyone's mind following the July 7 attack on the London underground. It is certainly on the mind of Massachusetts' insurance companies, which along with their national...
Provided by American City Business Journals
-
White Papers
Insurance Companies Rank St. Louis Low Terrorism Risk
Jun 2006
When it comes to insurance loss estimates in the event of a potential terrorist attack, St. Louis ranks on the same level as major metropolitan areas such as Miami, Denver and Dallas. It also...
Provided by American City Business Journals
-
White Papers
Creating A Risk Intelligent Infrastructure Getting Risk Intelligence Done
May 2010
This paper, based on a Deloitte Dbriefs presentation titled "Creating a Risk Intelligent Infrastructure," gives our most current thinking on building effective risk management practices into the...
Provided by Deloitte LLP
-
White Papers
Risk Intelligent Governance: A Practical Guide For Boards
Sep 2009
This paper aims to give board members a practical, action-oriented guide to enabling and executing Risk Intelligent governance. At the heart of the paper are six sections describing "Areas of...
Provided by Deloitte LLP
-
White Papers
What's The Password? Taking Control Of Identity Access Management
Apr 2010
Control of information has never been more critical to an organization, its employees, vendors, and business partners. Yet never has it been more difficult. Unauthorized system access leading to...
Provided by Deloitte LLP
-
White Papers
Integrated Enterprise Risk Management: The path To Commercial Excellence In The Chemical Industry
Dec 2009
This paper discusses what capabilities chemical companies need to develop to manage market instability to help deliver consistent and reliable earnings growth. The last two years have been...
Provided by Accenture
-
White Papers
Enterprise Risk Management And The New Market Realities: Five Points To Help Achieve High Performance
Mar 2010
Climbing out of a recession can be heavy going. At the same time, it can be a stimulating wake-up call. What companies are waking up to in the aftermath of the financial crisis is a complex world...
Provided by Accenture
-
White Papers
Dangerous Exposures: Risk And The Bottom Line
Dec 2008
Nine days after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in New York City, Kent Smetters, then deputy assistant secretary of economic policy at the U.S. Treasury, met with...
Provided by University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
-
White Papers
Private Information, Limited Commitment, And Risk Sharing
Aug 2007
This paper explores a model that considers an exchange economy with a continuum of agents, each of whom is subject to idiosyncratic endowment shocks. It studies efficient allocations subject to...
Provided by Duke University (Fuqua-Global)
-
White Papers
Risk And Return In Bond, Currency And Equity Markets
Jun 2007
This paper presents a general equilibrium long-run risks model that can simultane-
Provided by Duke University (Fuqua-Global)
-
White Papers
The Characteristics Of Politically Connected Firms
Jun 2007
Evidence from firms in 47 countries shows that companies connected with officials have higher leverage and higher market shares, but they underperform nonconnected companies on an accounting...
Provided by Purdue University (Krannert)
-
White Papers
The Quality Of Accounting Information In Politically Connected Firms
Dec 2007
Recent studies have documented systematic exchanges of favors between politicians and firms, and that connected firms, on average gain from political ties. Since these ties are often to a top...
Provided by Purdue University (Krannert)
-
White Papers
Large Shareholder Diversification And Corporate Risk-Taking
Jan 2010
Using new data for the universe of firms covered in Amadeus, the paper reconstructs the equity portfolios of shareholders who hold equity stakes in private and publicly-traded European firms. This...
Provided by Purdue University (Krannert)
-
White Papers
Securitization And Bank Performance
Sep 2009
Theory suggests that securitization provides financial institutions with an opportunity to lower the cost of funding; improve credit risk management and increase profitability. In practice,...
Provided by City University of London (Cass)
-
White Papers
Private Equity In Africa - Lessons Learned
Jan 2010
Africa represents a colossal investment opportunity. Containing 23 percent of the world's landmass and nearly one billion people, the continent has exceeded world average growth for the past eight...
Provided by Thunderbird School of Global Management
-
White Papers
Do Information Security Disclosures Reflect Future Incidents?
Mar 2009
This paper investigates how the nature of security related disclosures in financial reports is associated with breach announcements in the subsequent period. First build a decision tree to...
Provided by Purdue University (Krannert)
-
White Papers
Becoming Founder Role-Identity Affects Entrepreneurial Transitions And Persistence In Founding
Sep 2009
This paper develops the concept of founder role identity and delineates how two aspects, centrality and complexity, affect potential founders' ability to exit a current work role in order to...
Provided by INSEAD
-
White Papers
Political Connections And The Process Of Going Public: Evidence From China
Feb 2009
This paper examines how political connections impact the process of going public. Specifically, the authors test how political connections impact the pricing of the newly offered shares, the...
Provided by City University of London (Cass)
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On Pricing and Hedging In The Swaption Market: How Many Factors, Really?
Sep 2006
This paper examines how the number of stochastic drivers and their associated volatility structures affect pricing accuracy and hedging performance in the swaption market. In spite of the fact...
Provided by Case Western Reserve University (Weatherhead)
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Sharing Risk Efficiently Under Suboptimal Punishments For Defection
Aug 2007
The paper studies efficient risk sharing under limited enforcement (or "limited commitment") constraints determined by the threat of punishment after misbehavior. As in Kocherlakota (1996), the...
Provided by Purdue University (Krannert)
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Investor Attitudes Towards Risk And Uncertainty And Reactions To Market Turmoil
Jun 2010
In order to assess how individual small investors have reacted to recent adverse events in world financial markets and whether these reactions are mediated by their risk attitudes, a survey was...
Provided by Columbia University
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Is Political Risk Company-Specific? The Market Side Of The Yukos Affair
Sep 2006
The Yukos affair, a state-led assault on controlling shareholders of a private Russian oil company, once again demonstrated the shaky nature of property rights in emerging markets. Toughening of...
Provided by Bilkent University
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Government Backed Insurance Of Extreme Systemic Risk
Dec 2008
Governments' worldwide have recapitalised their banks, but this has not been enough to persuade banks to lend again. Despite large interest rate reductions the supply of credit to households and...
Provided by City University of London (Cass)
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Risk Education In-Depth Series (Part 1): Reprogramming An Enterprise
Apr 2008
Ask the department chairman at the nation's largest risk management and insurance academic program, and he's quite clear and emphatic."Our program today is fundamentally different today from what...
Provided by LRP Publications
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News And Sovereign Default Risk In Small Open Economies
May 2010
This paper builds a model of sovereign debt in which default risk, interest rates, and debt depend not only on current fundamentals but also on news about future fundamentals. News shocks affect...
Provided by Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
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A Solution To The Default Risk-Business Cycle Disconnect
Mar 2008
Models of business cycles in emerging economies explain the negative correlation between country spreads and output by modeling default risk as an exogenous interest rate on working capital....
Provided by Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
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Protection For Free? The Political Economy Of U.S. Tariff Suspensions
Sep 2010
This paper studies the political influence of individual firms on Congressional decisions to suspend tariffs on U.S. imports of intermediate goods. The authors develop a model in which firms...
Provided by International Monetary Fund
