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Essays in the theory of risk-bearing
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The article was published on 1958-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 3688 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Bearing (mechanical).read more
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Proactive planning for catastrophic events in supply chains
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed a process to proactively plan for catastrophic risk events through an integration of diverse research streams related to the management of risk, in particular, the proposed process builds upon an existing risk analysis framework by incorporating an innovative methodology used by the insurance industry to quantify the risk of multiple types of catastrophic events on key supply chain locations.
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The Fundamental Theorem of Parameter-Preference Security Valuation
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors extended the mean-variance security valuation model developed by Sharpe [10], Lintner [4, 5, and 6], and Mossin [7 and 8] to a general parameter preference model, with and without the simplifications of homogeneous subjective probabilities and the existence of a risk-free security.
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How Software Project Risk Affects Project Performance: An Investigation of the Dimensions of Risk and an Exploratory Model
TL;DR: Six dimensions of software project risk were identified and reliable and valid measures were developed for each and an exploratory model was developed and tested, showing that social subsystem risk influences technical subsystem risk, which, in turn, influences the level of project management risk, and ultimately, project performance.
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Impact of Uncertainty and Risk Aversion on Price and Order Quantity in the Newsvendor Problem
Vipul Agrawal,Sridhar Seshadri +1 more
TL;DR: A single-period inventory model in which a risk-averse retailer faces uncertain customer demand and makes a purchasing-order-quantity and a selling-price decision with the objective of maximizing expected utility is considered, providing a better understanding of retailers' pricing behavior.
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Risk aversion in the theory of expected utility with rank dependent probabilities
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors define measures of risk aversion for such preferences which characterize the relation "more risk averse" and apply these measures to the analysis of unconditional and conditional portfolio choice problems.