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2010 Perspective On Business Risk
Jan 2010
The global economy has just gone through one of the worst downturns in business history. Both causes of the economic turmoil and solutions for surviving it share a common theme: the need for more...
Provided by Deloitte LLP
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White Papers
Tripwire Log Center: Next Generation Log and Event Management
Feb 2010
Tripwire Log Center, a complete log and event management solution, offers sophisticated security event analysis and ultra-efficient log management. With Tripwire Log Center, you can query and...
Provided by Tripwire
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Supporting Real-World Activities in Database Management Systems
Oct 2009
The cycle of processing the data in many application domains is complex and may involve real-world activities that are external to the database, e.g., wet-lab experiments, instrument readings, and...
Provided by Purdue University (Krannert)
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White Papers
How Your Organization Can Profit From On-Demand Learning
Mar 2010
Change is a constant in today's business world, and any company that does not address the ever-pressing need to train its employees in new processes, technologies, and regulatory requirements will...
Provided by SkillSoft
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White Papers
Learning For The Sustainable Enterprise
Mar 2010
Sustainability is now a hot trend, and often it is associated with environmental responsibility. However, the environmental benefit is just one of the positive outcomes of a sustainable approach....
Provided by SkillSoft
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White Papers
Key Categories of Risk: Deconstruct the Landscape
Apr 2010
The recent credit and financial crisis highlighted the need for companies in all industries to take a broader view of risk. Read a perspective by Henry Ristuccia, partner, Deloitte & Touche LLP...
Provided by Deloitte LLP
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White Papers
Brave New World of Risk Confronts Financial Firms
Apr 2010
Risk managers in virtually every industry are getting more engaged with their boards and senior management, but nowhere is the focus on building this relationship more crucial than in financial...
Provided by Deloitte LLP
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White Papers
Cloud Services
Apr 2010
As with any big idea that rocks the technology world, there's a lot of confusion about cloud services and what they mean in business. We all see the potential for cheaper and faster, but that's...
Provided by Deloitte LLP
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White Papers
Podcast - Business in 2010 and Beyond
Apr 2010
Dwight Allen, director of Merger & Acquisition (M&A) Studies for Deloitte Research, Deloitte Services LP, discusses various scenarios that may come into play as the recovery unfolds, and how these...
Provided by Deloitte LLP
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White Papers
Deloitte's State of the Media Democracy Survey
Apr 2010
Do you know the top 10 media consumption habits that will affect companies in 2010? A "reality check" on how consumers are interacting with technology and purchasing products can help you identify...
Provided by Deloitte LLP
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White Papers
Retail Global Expansion
Apr 2010
Despite a struggling economy and cautious consumers in the U.S. and abroad, global expansion opportunities do exist for those willing to move now. While there is no "one-size-fits-all" path to...
Provided by Deloitte LLP
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White Papers
Looking for Growth? Go Digital
Apr 2010
As more users continue to conduct commerce online, or have their purchases influenced by online media, it will be imperative to ensure a scalable e-commerce strategy is in place. Learn what...
Provided by Deloitte LLP
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White Papers
Investing in Emerging Markets
Apr 2010
Companies considering opportunities in emerging markets need to be aware of some unique risks. Not only do they need to understand who they are doing business with, but also the U.S. laws and...
Provided by Deloitte LLP
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White Papers
Redefining Functional Service Delivery to Achieve Organizational Efficiency
Apr 2010
An effective service delivery model (SDM) distinguishes between various types and ways of performing work - and helps reshape them to improve their impact on company performance. Which are most...
Provided by Deloitte LLP
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White Papers
Cloud Computing: Impacting IT and the Bottom Line
Apr 2010
The hype curve for cloud computing is at an all-time high, for pretty good reasons. The convergence of Internet technologies, virtualization and large scale data centers has created a powerful new...
Provided by Deloitte LLP
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White Papers
The Shift Index
Apr 2010
The sustained erosion in corporate performance suggests that the current way of doing business is fundamentally broken. The Shift Index leverages more than a dozen data sources, four surveys, five...
Provided by Deloitte LLP
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White Papers
Disclosure Rules & Climate Change: Perspective on SEC Guidance
Apr 2010
Companies should take the Security and Exchange Commission's (SEC) guidance as an opportunity to review the adequacy of their controls in terms of identifying, measuring, reporting and disclosing...
Provided by Deloitte LLP
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Webcasts
Big Issues In Government: Security
Jun 2010
This webcast is a part of Big Issues in Government series which talks about the ways states can address both cyber security threats and the increased role states must play in our overall national...
Provided by Deloitte LLP
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White Papers
Seizing The Opportunities In The Low-Carbon Economy
Jan 2010
The challenges businesses will face to mitigate climate change over the next two decades are likely to be monumental. During this time, the journey to a low-carbon economy will be game-changing...
Provided by Accenture
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White Papers
To Copenhagen And Beyond: A Pragmatic Approach To Mitigating Climate Change
Dec 2009
The scope of the paper is mitigation - the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions - primarily focusing on emissions relating to fossil fuel combustion and industrial activity. These sectors account...
Provided by Accenture
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White Papers
Managing Risk For High Performance In Extraordinary Times: Global Risk Management Study
Jun 2008
In the wake of the global economic meltdown, chances are there isn't a boardroom or executive management office anywhere today where the topic of improving the organization's risk management...
Provided by Accenture
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White Papers
Managing Risk For High Performance In Extraordinary Times
Jun 2009
In the wake of the global economic meltdown, chances are there isn't a boardroom or executive management office anywhere today where the topic of improving the organization's risk management...
Provided by Accenture
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White Papers
A Roadmap To High Performance For Cpos Balancing Short-Term Savings Imperatives And Post-Downturn Challenges
Jan 2010
Today's focus on cost reduction presents procurement with a rare opportunity to transform purchasing practices with strategic changes that push beyond immediate savings to achieve long-term...
Provided by Accenture
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White Papers
Vaccinate Your Small Business
Dec 2009
As the H1N1 flu outbreak looks to spread throughout the upcoming winter, many small businesses could find the disease a serious threat to their profitability and, perhaps, long-term survivability....
Provided by Bank of America
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White Papers
Keeping Ahead Of Supply Chain Risk And Uncertainty
Sep 2008
No matter what business one is in - corporate or government, large or small, public or private - risk is on the menu. Risk arrives in a wide variety of unappetizing flavors: economic volatility,...
Provided by Accenture
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White Papers
How To Manage Risk In Business And The Workplace
Mar 2010
Every company is vulnerable to risk, and there is a great probability for loss. The environment of the workplace always changes while facing isolated responsibilities, and risks from the external...
Provided by Business Articles
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White Papers
How To Prepare Your Business For A Disaster
Jan 2010
"Primal fear" is the technical term used by experts to describe how people react to the threat or actual terrorist disaster. Everyone reacts differently to these events. Just the announcement of a...
Provided by Executive Business Advisers
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White Papers
Why The Due Diligence Process May Be Getting Short Shrift
Aug 2007
Paul Schaye, managing director at boutique advisor Chestnut Hill Partners, represented a buyer in a deal for a maker of vinyl coating for fabric. Everything went smoothly until the due diligence...
Provided by Bank of America
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Case Studies
Quantifying Risk: Aircraft Carrier Fleet Gap Analysis
May 2010
When the Navy decommissions the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise (CVN-65) in November 2012, the fleet will be reduced from 11 carriers to 10 until the USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) is ready for...
Provided by Booz Allen Hamilton
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White Papers
Know More About Business Bankruptcy
Feb 2010
On top the heavy competition in the business world, the current economic conditions are also not favorable for the businesses. This is the reason why many entrepreneurs are forced to take the...
Provided by Free Articles Directory
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White Papers
With The Right Kind Of Organization, You Can Expand While Cutting Costs
Aug 2008
The control of costs had been its greatest strength. But it was now the greatest weakness. The company had spent so many years trying to reduce expenses that this imperative was hardwired into its...
Provided by Booz & Company
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White Papers
How Risky Is Your Company?
Jan 2009
Success brings your company profits, growth, and unbounded optimism. It can also blind you to risks that creep in with success. For example, a fast-growing firm accelerates hiring. Soon new,...
Provided by Harvard Business School Publishing
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White Papers
Is It Real? Can We Win? Is It Worth Doing?
Nov 2007
Incremental innovations (small, safe changes to your firm's offerings) make up 8596-90% of companies' development portfolios. But "little i" projects rarely produce competitive advantage. For...
Provided by Harvard Business School Publishing
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White Papers
Factors Involved In A Business Continuity Plan
Feb 2010
Business continuity plan is one of the most expensive and time taking plan, which many companies skip to develop as this costs virtually nothing to produce. This plan is beneficial for small...
Provided by Free Articles Directory
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White Papers
Improved Schedule Risk Analysis (SRA) Through Metric Assessment
Feb 2010
This paper discusses the importance of establishing a sound schedule basis and ensuring valid risk inputs so as to generate an accurate and realistic schedule risk model. A technique for ensuring...
Provided by Acumen PM
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White Papers
The Evolution Of Risk And Controls: From Score - Keeping To Strategic Partnering
Dec 2007
The Economist Intelligence Unit conducted a global survey of 435 senior executives, half of whom work for companies with more than US$1bn in annual revenue. The paper reached a very senior...
Provided by KPMG International
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White Papers
Counting On Analytical Talent
Mar 2010
Companies are increasingly turning to analytics to gain a competitive edge. As they do, they must resolve unique demands on their information technology, their structure, their processes, and...
Provided by Accenture
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White Papers
Executive Learning Solutions For Organizations In The Financial Services Industry
Jan 2010
Wharton's design process is focused and expedited by a reality-based grasp of how the industry works. Programs customized for your organization that tie your specific business needs to the...
Provided by University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
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White Papers
Managing Risk: Asset Allocation Within Pension Plans
Oct 2007
How do firms decide whether to invest in riskier or safer assets? Recent research analyzes the conflicting incentives for managing cash flow risk in defined benefit pension plans. Corporate...
Provided by University of Chicago (Booth)
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Case Studies
Case Study Of An Inactive Mine: Assessing Risk Of An Inactive Mine Aids EHS And Fiscal Planning
Jan 2010
In initiating the process of managing an inactive mine, Deloitte shouldered multiple responsibilities with environmental, health and safety risks. A mine not in use equals a sleeping dragon as it,...
Provided by Deloitte LLP
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White Papers
The Risk-Shifting Effect And The Value Of A Warrant
Jan 2008
The exercise of a warrant leads to the well-known dilution phenomenon, whose effects have been extensively studied over the last four decades. In contrast, the existing literature has paid...
Provided by University of Bologna
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White Papers
An Empirical Test On Leverage And Stock Returns
Nov 2007
This paper is an empirical work that investigates the effect of a firm's leverage on stock returns. The authors undertake their tests based on the explicit valuation model of Modigliani and Miller...
Provided by Cass Business School
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White Papers
Bank Risk Management With Value-At-Risk And Stress Testing: An Alternative To Conditional Value-At-Risk?
Mar 2008
Recognizing the drawbacks of Value-at-Risk (VaR), researchers have advocated the use of Conditional Value-at-Risk (CVaR). However, the current popularity of VaR and Stress Testing (ST) among bank...
Provided by George Washington University
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White Papers
How Certain Is The Uncertainty Effect?
Jul 2009
The authors replicate three pricing tasks of Gneezy, List and Wu (2006) for which they document the so-called uncertainty effect, namely, that people value a binary lottery over non-monetary...
Provided by Charles University
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White Papers
Fairness In Risky Environments: Theory And Evidence
Oct 2010
Theories of fairness have typically used the assumption of ex-ante known pie size. Pie size, however, is rarely known ex ante. Using three simple allocation problems generally known as dictator,...
Provided by Charles University
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White Papers
Experts In Experiments: How Selection Matters For Estimated Distributions Of Risk Preferences
Mar 2011
An ever increasing number of experiments attempts to elicit risk preferences of a population of interest with the aim of calibrating parameters used in economic models. The authors are concerned...
Provided by Institute for the Study of Labor
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White Papers
Property Derivatives For Managing European Real-Estate Risk
Aug 2009
Although property markets represent a large proportion of total wealth in developed countries, the real-estate derivatives markets are still lagging behind in volume of trading and liquidity. Over...
Provided by Yale School of Management
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White Papers
Searching For The Entrepreneurial Personality: New Evidence And Avenues For Further Research
Jun 2011
What makes the entrepreneurial personality is the key question the authors seek to answer in the special issue of the Journal of Economic Psychology on "Personality and Entrepreneurship." The...
Provided by Institute for the Study of Labor
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White Papers
Manipulation Of Choice Behavior
Jul 2011
The authors introduce and study the problem of manipulation of choice behavior. In a class of two-stage models of decision making, with the agent's choices determined by three "Psychological...
Provided by Institute for the Study of Labor
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White Papers
Carry Trades And Risk
Aug 2011
Carry trades, in which an investor borrows a low interest rate currency and lends a high interest rate currency, have been profitable historically. The risk exposure of carry traders might explain...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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White Papers
Systemic Risk Exposures: A 10-by-10-by-10 Approach
Aug 2011
Here, the author presents and discuss a "10-by-10-by-10" network-based approach to monitoring systemic financial risk. Under this approach, a regulator would analyze the exposures of a core group...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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White Papers
Consumption Risk-sharing And The Real Exchange Rate: Why Does The Nominal Exchange Rate Make Such A Difference?
Aug 2011
A basic prediction of efficient risk-sharing is that relative consumption growth rates across countries or regions should be positively related to real exchange rate growth rates across the same...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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White Papers
Implicit Guarantees And Risk Taking: Evidence From Money Market Funds
Aug 2011
A firm's termination generates bankruptcy costs. This may create incentives for a firm's owner to bail out a firm in bankruptcy and to curb the firm's risk taking outside bankruptcy. The authors...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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Webcasts
How To Combine Faster Lead Times With Tighter Risk Management
Jan 2011
This webcast discusses more haste means more risk? Not anymore. With Capgemini, you can get to market faster, while keeping a tight rein on business risks and your progress.
Provided by Capgemini
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Webcasts
Marc Zimmerman: How To Combine Faster Lead Times With Tighter Risk Management
Jan 2011
This webcast on how to combine faster lead times with tighter risk management, the presenter presents how to reduce lead times with tighter risk controls.
Provided by Capgemini
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Webcasts
Jerry Langhorst: How To Combine Faster Lead Times With Tighter Risk Management
Jan 2011
This webcast on how to combine faster lead times with tighter risk management, the presenter presents how to reduce lead times with tighter risk controls.
Provided by Capgemini
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Webcasts
Lending Origination Solution From Capgemini And Pegasystems
Jan 2011
In this webcast the presenter presents about their new straight through processing solution for loan origination with Pegasystems and how the solution enable lenders to achieve efficiency gains,...
Provided by Capgemini
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Whitepapers
The Superstar CFO - After The Crisis
Jul 2011
CFO Research, inc collaboration with SAP, conducted a research study that asked senior finance executives what it takes for Finance executives to excel in a changing and uncertain world. This...
Provided by SAP
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Whitepapers
Improving Bank Performance: Overcoming Common Planning-Related Obstacles
Jul 2011
Bank CFOs are being forced to reexamine their roles and responsibilities. Simply closing the books no longer works. Finance departments are being asked to perform strategic budgeting and planning,...
Provided by SAP
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White Papers
International Lending With Moral Hazard And Risk Of Repudiation
Dec 2010
In this paper, the author examines the constrained optimal pattern of capital flows between a lender and a borrower in an environment in which there are two impediments to forming contracts. The...
Provided by JSTOR
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White Papers
Indeterminacy Of Competitive Equilibrium With Risk Of Default
Aug 2009
The authors prove indeterminacy of competitive equilibrium in sequential economies, where limited commitment requires the endogenous determination of solvency constraints preventing debt...
Provided by University of Toronto
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White Papers
Self Control, Risk Aversion, And The Allais Paradox
Feb 2010
This paper develops a dual-self model that is compatible with modern dynamic macroeconomic theory and evidence, and shows how it leads to a wide range of behavioral anomalies concerning risk,...
Provided by Harvard University
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White Papers
Risk Preferences Are Not Time Preferences
Jan 2010
Risk and time are intertwined. The present is known while the future is inherently risky. Discounted expected utility provides a simple, coherent structure for analyzing decisions in...
Provided by University of California
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White Papers
Fairness And Independence: An Impossibility Theorem
Mar 2011
The most widely used economic models of social preferences are specified only for certain outcomes. There are two obvious methods of extending them to lotteries. If we do so by expected utility...
Provided by Harvard University
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White Papers
Bond Positions, Expectations, And The Yield Curve
Jan 2008
This paper implements a structural model of the yield curve with data on nominal positions and survey forecasts. Bond prices are characterized in terms of investors' current portfolio holdings as...
Provided by Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
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White Papers
Valuing Mortality Risk Reductions: Progress And Challenges
Apr 2011
The value of mortality risk reduction is an important component of the benefits of environmental policies. In recent years, the number, scope, and quality of valuation studies have increased...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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White Papers
How Does Risk Selection Respond To Risk Adjustment? Evidence From The Medicare Advantage Program
Apr 2011
Governments often contract with private firms to provide public services such as health care and education. To decrease firms' incentives to selectively enroll low-cost individuals, governments...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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White Papers
Making Sense Of The Subprime Crisis
Feb 2009
This paper explores the question of whether market participants could have or should have anticipated the large increase in foreclosures that occurred in 2007 and 2008. Most of these foreclosures...
Provided by Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
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White Papers
Price Discrimination And Business-cycle Risk
Mar 2011
A parsimonious theoretical model of second degree price discrimination suggests that the business cycle will affect the degree to which firms are able to price-discriminate between different...
Provided by Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
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White Papers
Uninsured Countercyclical Risk: An Aggregation Result And Application To Optimal Monetary Policy
Mar 2011
The authors consider an incomplete-markets economy with capital accumulation and endogenous labor supply. Individuals face countercyclical idiosyncratic labor and asset risk. They derive...
Provided by Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
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White Papers
Counterparty Risk Externality: Centralized Versus Over-The-Counter Markets
Apr 2011
The authors model the opacity of Over-The-Counter (OTC) markets in a setup where agents share risks, but have incentives to default and their financial positions are not mutually observable. They...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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White Papers
The Quantification Of Systemic Risk And Stability: New Methods And Measures
May 2011
The authors address the question of the prediction of large failures, busts, or system collapse, and the necessary concepts related to risk quantification, minimization and management. Answering...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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White Papers
Credit Risk And Disaster Risk
May 2011
Corporate credit spreads are large, volatile, countercyclical, and significantly larger than expected losses, but existing macroeconomic models with financial frictions fail to reproduce these...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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White Papers
Peer Effects And Multiple Equilibria In The Risky Behavior Of Friends
May 2011
The authors study social interactions in the risky behavior of best-friend pairs in the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health). Focusing on friends who had not yet initiated...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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White Papers
The Real Exchange Rate, Real Interest Rates, And The Risk Premium
Jun 2011
The well-known uncovered interest parity puzzle arises from the empirical regularity that, among developed country pairs, the high interest rate country tends to have high expected returns on its...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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White Papers
Risk, Monetary Policy And The Exchange Rate
Jun 2011
In this paper, the authors provide new empirical evidence on the importance of time-varying uncertainty for the exchange rate and the excess return in currency markets. Following an increase in...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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White Papers
Deposit Insurance, Moral Hazard And The Risk Of Runs
Jun 2008
The effectiveness of deposit insurance in eliminating panic runs varies with the size of coverage and the degree of supervisory involvement of the agency in charge of insurance. When the agency is...
Provided by Central Bank of Chile
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White Papers
The Balance Sheet Channel
Jan 2010
In this paper, the authors study the role of the credit channel of monetary policy in the context of a DSGE model. Through the use of a regulated banking sector subject to a regulatory capital...
Provided by Central Bank of Chile
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White Papers
The Risk Components Of Liquidity
Mar 2008
Does liquidity risk differ depending on the choice of liquidity proxy? Unlike literature that considers common liquidity variation, the authors focus on identifying different components of...
Provided by Norges Bank
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White Papers
Incorporating Financial Sector Risk Into Monetary Policy Models: Application To Chile
Feb 2010
This paper presents a model for the financial sector's vulnerability and integrates it into a macroeconomic framework commonly used in monetary policymaking. The main question to answer with the...
Provided by Central Bank of Chile
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White Papers
Investing in Emerging Markets
Apr 2010
Companies considering opportunities in emerging markets need to be aware of some unique risks. Not only do they need to understand who they are doing business with, but also the U.S. laws and...
Provided by Deloitte LLP
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White Papers
Redefining Functional Service Delivery to Achieve Organizational Efficiency
Apr 2010
An effective service delivery model (SDM) distinguishes between various types and ways of performing work - and helps reshape them to improve their impact on company performance. Which are most...
Provided by Deloitte LLP
-
White Papers
Cloud Computing: Impacting IT and the Bottom Line
Apr 2010
The hype curve for cloud computing is at an all-time high, for pretty good reasons. The convergence of Internet technologies, virtualization and large scale data centers has created a powerful new...
Provided by Deloitte LLP
-
White Papers
The Shift Index
Apr 2010
The sustained erosion in corporate performance suggests that the current way of doing business is fundamentally broken. The Shift Index leverages more than a dozen data sources, four surveys, five...
Provided by Deloitte LLP
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White Papers
Onshore Jobs, Offshore Compliance: Tax Provisions in the HIRE Act
Apr 2010
The Hiring Incentives to Restore Employment (HIRE) Act imposes new information reporting requirements, withholding requirements and penalties to curb abuses of offshore financial accounts. Explore...
Provided by Deloitte LLP
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White Papers
Disclosure Rules & Climate Change: Perspective on SEC Guidance
Apr 2010
Companies should take the Security and Exchange Commission's (SEC) guidance as an opportunity to review the adequacy of their controls in terms of identifying, measuring, reporting and disclosing...
Provided by Deloitte LLP
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White Papers
Health Care Reform
Apr 2010
National health reform is here. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the House-passed reconciliation bill will trigger sweeping changes and disruptions — some rather quickly and some...
Provided by Deloitte LLP
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Webcasts
Big Issues In Government: Security
Jun 2010
This webcast is a part of Big Issues in Government series which talks about the ways states can address both cyber security threats and the increased role states must play in our overall national...
Provided by Deloitte LLP
-
White Papers
Seizing The Opportunities In The Low-Carbon Economy
Jan 2010
The challenges businesses will face to mitigate climate change over the next two decades are likely to be monumental. During this time, the journey to a low-carbon economy will be game-changing...
Provided by Accenture
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White Papers
To Copenhagen And Beyond: A Pragmatic Approach To Mitigating Climate Change
Dec 2009
The scope of the paper is mitigation - the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions - primarily focusing on emissions relating to fossil fuel combustion and industrial activity. These sectors account...
Provided by Accenture
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White Papers
Managing Risk For High Performance In Extraordinary Times: Global Risk Management Study
Jun 2008
In the wake of the global economic meltdown, chances are there isn't a boardroom or executive management office anywhere today where the topic of improving the organization's risk management...
Provided by Accenture
-
White Papers
Managing Risk For High Performance In Extraordinary Times
Jun 2009
In the wake of the global economic meltdown, chances are there isn't a boardroom or executive management office anywhere today where the topic of improving the organization's risk management...
Provided by Accenture
-
White Papers
A Roadmap To High Performance For Cpos Balancing Short-Term Savings Imperatives And Post-Downturn Challenges
Jan 2010
Today's focus on cost reduction presents procurement with a rare opportunity to transform purchasing practices with strategic changes that push beyond immediate savings to achieve long-term...
Provided by Accenture
-
White Papers
Vaccinate Your Small Business
Dec 2009
As the H1N1 flu outbreak looks to spread throughout the upcoming winter, many small businesses could find the disease a serious threat to their profitability and, perhaps, long-term survivability....
Provided by Bank of America
-
White Papers
Keeping Ahead Of Supply Chain Risk And Uncertainty
Sep 2008
No matter what business one is in - corporate or government, large or small, public or private - risk is on the menu. Risk arrives in a wide variety of unappetizing flavors: economic volatility,...
Provided by Accenture
-
White Papers
How To Manage Risk In Business And The Workplace
Mar 2010
Every company is vulnerable to risk, and there is a great probability for loss. The environment of the workplace always changes while facing isolated responsibilities, and risks from the external...
Provided by Business Articles
-
White Papers
How To Prepare Your Business For A Disaster
Jan 2010
"Primal fear" is the technical term used by experts to describe how people react to the threat or actual terrorist disaster. Everyone reacts differently to these events. Just the announcement of a...
Provided by Executive Business Advisers
-
White Papers
Why The Due Diligence Process May Be Getting Short Shrift
Aug 2007
Paul Schaye, managing director at boutique advisor Chestnut Hill Partners, represented a buyer in a deal for a maker of vinyl coating for fabric. Everything went smoothly until the due diligence...
Provided by Bank of America
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Case Studies
Quantifying Risk: Aircraft Carrier Fleet Gap Analysis
May 2010
When the Navy decommissions the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise (CVN-65) in November 2012, the fleet will be reduced from 11 carriers to 10 until the USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) is ready for...
Provided by Booz Allen Hamilton
-
White Papers
Know More About Business Bankruptcy
Feb 2010
On top the heavy competition in the business world, the current economic conditions are also not favorable for the businesses. This is the reason why many entrepreneurs are forced to take the...
Provided by Free Articles Directory
-
White Papers
With The Right Kind Of Organization, You Can Expand While Cutting Costs
Aug 2008
The control of costs had been its greatest strength. But it was now the greatest weakness. The company had spent so many years trying to reduce expenses that this imperative was hardwired into its...
Provided by Booz & Company
-
White Papers
How Risky Is Your Company?
Jan 2009
Success brings your company profits, growth, and unbounded optimism. It can also blind you to risks that creep in with success. For example, a fast-growing firm accelerates hiring. Soon new,...
Provided by Harvard Business School Publishing
-
White Papers
Is It Real? Can We Win? Is It Worth Doing?
Nov 2007
Incremental innovations (small, safe changes to your firm's offerings) make up 8596-90% of companies' development portfolios. But "little i" projects rarely produce competitive advantage. For...
Provided by Harvard Business School Publishing
-
White Papers
Factors Involved In A Business Continuity Plan
Feb 2010
Business continuity plan is one of the most expensive and time taking plan, which many companies skip to develop as this costs virtually nothing to produce. This plan is beneficial for small...
Provided by Free Articles Directory
-
White Papers
Improved Schedule Risk Analysis (SRA) Through Metric Assessment
Feb 2010
This paper discusses the importance of establishing a sound schedule basis and ensuring valid risk inputs so as to generate an accurate and realistic schedule risk model. A technique for ensuring...
Provided by Acumen PM
-
White Papers
The Evolution Of Risk And Controls: From Score - Keeping To Strategic Partnering
Dec 2007
The Economist Intelligence Unit conducted a global survey of 435 senior executives, half of whom work for companies with more than US$1bn in annual revenue. The paper reached a very senior...
Provided by KPMG International
-
White Papers
Counting On Analytical Talent
Mar 2010
Companies are increasingly turning to analytics to gain a competitive edge. As they do, they must resolve unique demands on their information technology, their structure, their processes, and...
Provided by Accenture
-
White Papers
Executive Learning Solutions For Organizations In The Financial Services Industry
Jan 2010
Wharton's design process is focused and expedited by a reality-based grasp of how the industry works. Programs customized for your organization that tie your specific business needs to the...
Provided by University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
-
White Papers
Managing Risk: Asset Allocation Within Pension Plans
Oct 2007
How do firms decide whether to invest in riskier or safer assets? Recent research analyzes the conflicting incentives for managing cash flow risk in defined benefit pension plans. Corporate...
Provided by University of Chicago (Booth)
-
Case Studies
Case Study Of An Inactive Mine: Assessing Risk Of An Inactive Mine Aids EHS And Fiscal Planning
Jan 2010
In initiating the process of managing an inactive mine, Deloitte shouldered multiple responsibilities with environmental, health and safety risks. A mine not in use equals a sleeping dragon as it,...
Provided by Deloitte LLP
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Case Studies
Managing Risk Through Effective Team-Based Decision Making
Jul 2008
Making sure that government, businesses and households have secure supplies of energy is a huge commitment. Engineers working for the energy supply companies must make sure that this commitment is...
Provided by MBA Publishing
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White Papers
A Note On The Economics And Statistics Of Predictability: A Long Run Risks Perspective
Nov 2007
Asset return and cash flow predictability is of considerable interest in financial economics. The debate regarding return and cash flow predictability has been at center stage in finance for...
Provided by Duke University (Fuqua-Global)
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White Papers
Risks For The Long Run: Estimation And Inference
Sep 2007
This paper empirically evaluates the ability of the long-run risks model to explain asset returns. Exploiting asset pricing Euler equations this paper shows methods developed for estimating the...
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Moral Hazard, Collateral And Liquidity
Dec 2007
ously account for key asset price puzzles in bond, currency and equity markets.
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Does Securitization Reduce Credit Risk Taking? Empirical Evidence From US Bank Holding Companies
Jan 2010
This paper investigates the impact of securitization on the credit-risk taking behavior of banks. Using US bank holding company data from 2001 to 2007 it is found that banks with a greater balance...
Provided by City University of London (Cass)
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Emerging Themes In Banking: Recent Literature And Directions For Future Research
Nov 2009
This paper presents a review of the recent literature in banking around the core themes of performance, risk and governance of financial institutions. This paper backdrop of the recent financial...
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Competition And Risk Taking Incentives In The Lending Market: An Application To Indian Banking
Sep 2009
This paper develops a structural model of competition in the lending market to examine the impact of financial reforms both on competition and on banks' risk taking incentives. Drawing on the...
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The Fractional Merton Model: A New Approach To Credit Risk Pricing (Revised)
Oct 2008
Merton model is known to underestimate credit spreads. In this paper the authors develop the theoretical framework of the fractional Merton model, which allows to embed long memory properties of...
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The Fractional Merton Model: A New Approach To Credit Risk Pricing
Mar 2008
In this paper the authors develop the theoretical framework of the fractional Merton model, which allows to embed long memory properties of spreads in a straightforward manner in a credit risk...
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Evaluating Value-At-Risk Models With Desk-Level Data
Jul 2007
This paper presents new evidence on disaggregated profit and loss (P/L) and Value-at-Risk (VaR) forecasts obtained from a large international commercial bank. The dataset includes daily P/L...
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