risk

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    • Athey
      • Susan Athey.
        In Susan Athey

        …the crucial economic assumptions on risk preferences and the nature of risk that allow a researcher to draw conclusions. Athey was affiliated with a firm that advised governments on auction design, and much of her research was concentrated in this area, in which individuals, firms, or governments actively specify and…

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    • Engle
      • In Robert F. Engle

        …evaluation and more-accurate forecasting of risk, which enabled researchers to test if and how volatility in one period was related to volatility in another period. This work had particular relevance in financial market analysis, in which the investment returns of an asset were assessed against its risks and in which…

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