In this article, we explore how presidential risk orientations affect force employment decisions through an analysis of the use of unmanned weaponry during the Bush and Obama administrations. We hypothesize that the conception of risk plays an integral part in this choice of weaponry. In order to examine our hypothesis, we utilize the verbs-in-context system of operational code analysis to quan...

There is an empirical connection between deposit insurance, risktaking, and insolvency. We argue that if banks maximize profit this amounts to a puzzle (even taking into account that deposit insurance decreases incentives for customers to monitor banks). However, we show that the empirical regularities can be well captured if bankers are motivated by reciprocity towards their customer base.

The goal of adolescence is to gain independence and establish a secure identity. • Adolescents’ cognitive development can result in abstract thinking that can predispose them to risktaking behavior and a sense of invincibility. • Clinicians can use the primary care visit to promote independence and prepare parents for the features experienced during adolescent development. • Parental or supervi...

Family Planning Perspectives Family dynamics and attachment also play a role: If parents appropriately supervise and monitor their children, and if the adolescents feel connected to their parents, they are less likely to engage in sexual risk-taking. Family values about sexual behavior and contraceptive use, and family sexual behaviors, also have an impact on the adolescents’ behavior. Moreover...

Bank capital regulation seems to be today’s most accepted regulatory instrument. The reasoning is that limited liability and deposit insurance appear to give banks incentives for excessive risktaking. Capital requirements can alleviate this problem as banks are obliged to hold more capital which forces them to have more of their own funds at risk. But the theoretical literature has much more to...

Evidence shared at the New Delhi meeting revealed some striking similarities in experiences across settings. For example, compared to young women of similar age who did not experience sexual coercion, females who experienced coercion are more likely to experience subsequent incidents of forced sex, as well as (consensual) sexual risktaking behaviours including multiple sexual partners and non-u...

We show that nonbanks (funds, shadow banks, fintech) reduce the effectiveness of tighter monetary policy on credit supply and resulting real effects, increase risk-taking. For identification, we exploit exhaustive US loan-level data since 1990s Gertler-Karadi shocks. Higher rates shift from banks to less-regulated, more fragile nonbanks. The bank-to-nonbank largely neutralizes total associated ...

Using comprehensive corporate and retail loan data, we show that the corporate culture of banks explains their risktaking behaviour. Banks whose corporate culture leans towards aggressive competition are associated with riskier lending practices: higher approval rate, lower borrower quality, and fewer covenant requirements. Consequently, these banks incur larger loan losses and make greater con...

Evidence shared at the New Delhi meeting revealed some striking similarities in experiences across settings. For example, compared to young women of similar age who did not experience sexual coercion, females who experienced coercion are more likely to experience subsequent incidents of forced sex, as well as (consensual) sexual risktaking behaviours including multiple sexual partners and non-u...