Predicting Food-Safety Risk and Determining Cost-Effective Risk-Reduction Strategies

Microbial food safety risk assessment

Cost Stickiness and Banks Credit Risk

The credit risk in banks is a function of the profitability and quality of bank assets. Moreover, cost stickiness also affects the quality of assets and profitability of banks. To achieve the research aims, is to explore relationship between cost stickiness and banks credit risk were tested and analyzed is based on pooling data from 21 banks in duration 2012-2019. The findings show that there i...

Existential Risk and Cost-Effective Biosecurity

In the decades to come, advanced bioweapons could threaten human existence. Although the probability of human extinction from bioweapons may be low, the expected value of reducing the risk could still be large, since such risks jeopardize the existence of all future generations. We provide an overview of biotechnological extinction risk, make some rough initial estimates for how severe the risk...

Income risk, coping strategies and safety nets

Poor rural and urban households in developing countries face substantial risks, which they handle with risk-management and risk-coping strategies, including self-insurance through savings and informal insurance mechanisms. Despite these mechanisms, however, vulnerability to poverty linked to risk remains high. This article reviews the literature on poor households’ use of risk-management and ri...

PART ONE: Choosing Strategies for Health Risk Reduction 2. Prevention and Treatment in Food Safety: An Analysis of Conceptual Issues