Browsing Vitenskapelige publikasjoner (SV-IMS) by Subject "risk"
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Norwegian media substantiation of counterterrorism measures
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014-10)The aim of this article is to investigate how terrorism countermeasures have been justified and reasoned for in the public arena, specifically in Norwegian media discourses from 1993 to 2007. Changes in the media discourse ... -
Production versus safety in a risky competitive industry
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2012)Each of two firms has a resource that can be converted into safety versus productive investment in the first stage, with Bertrand competition on price in the second stage of a two-stage game. The firms produce differentiated ... -
Production, safety, exchange, and risk
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2011)Two agents convert resources into safety investment and production while exchanging goods voluntarily. Safety investment ensures reduction of costly risk. High unit cost of safety effort reduces both productive effort ... -
Production, safety, fighting, and risk
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2011)Two agents make a trade off between production and safety investment, fighting for joint production. Ceteris paribus, if agent 1 has a higher unit cost of production, lower emphasis on safety causes more fighting and higher ... -
Protection vs. separation in parallel non-homogeneous systems
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2009)The article considers strategic defense and attack of a system consisting of N functionally identical parallel elements of n types distinguished by element’s performance. The elements can be separated in order to reduce ... -
Risk, price, and reimbursement
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2010)The article offers five hypotheses for the inverse relationship between risk and price in terms of first and second derivatives, establishing ranges of convexity, linearity, concavity. Negative price means reimbursement. ... -
Risk, production and conflict when utilities are as if certain
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2010)The article analyses a production and conflict model of risk, supplementing the common rent seeking analysis. Agents differ in attitudes toward risk, productive efficiencies, fighting efficiencies and resources for production ... -
Terrorism risks, civil liberties, and privacy concerns
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2012-10)Transportation of people plays a major role in our critical infrastructures. The article seeks to determine our willingness to protect our infrastructures balanced against sacrificing civil liberties. Respecting civil ...