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Handschriften des Orientalischen Seminars der Universität Freiburg
No full textGudrun Schubert; Renate Würsc
Bausteine : ausgewählte Aufsätze zur Islamwissenschaft / 3 Indices
No full textzusammengest. von Gudrun Schubert und Renate Würsc
Environmental Protection, Energy Policy and Poverty Reduction – Synergies of an Integrated Approach
Get PDFThis paper describes the mechanisms that link poverty reduction with climate and energy policy. First, there is a brief analysis of the relationship between ongoing climate change, energy use and poverty. This analysis is followed by an overview of different policy options that have the potential to fight poverty while simultaneously limiting global warming and environmental degradation. Mitigating climate change, transforming the energy systems in developing countries and financing adaptation to climate change are pointed out as central policy fields governments and developing agencies should focus on. Furthermore, one can argue that new technologies to increase energy efficiency and the dissemination of renewable energy systems have an especially strong impact on poverty. Access to clean and cost-efficient energy has a direct effect on the income generation potentials of the poor. Finally, this paper identifies appropriate financing mechanisms to implement the aforementioned strategies.
Handschriften des Orientalischen Seminars der Universität Freiburg / Gudrun Schubert; Renate Würsch
Get PDFAl-Sakhāwī, a biographer from Mamlūk Cairo and his <i>Dictionary of women</i>:studies by Renate Jacobi
No full textThe volume presents Renate Jacobi’s studies on the historian ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Sakhāwī (d. 902/1497) and his biographical dictionary al-Ḍawʾ al-lāmiʿ li-ahl al-qarn al-tāsiʿ with the special focus on the biographies of women. Al-Sakhāwī’s dictionary is exceptional in the history of classical Arabic biographical literature. Its twelfth and final volume featuring 1075 numbered biographical entries is devoted exclusively to women many of whom were known by the author in person. Renate Jacobi examines the life of al-Sakhāwī and analyzes his dictionary as a unique source for studying the social role of women in the Mamlūk period, their chances of taking up public space, and making a career of their own. The texts of the chapters in this volume have been adopted from previous publications by Renate Jacobi in different journals and edited volumes with some editorial modifications, additions and bibliographical updates. Two studies, “The Scholar and the Poetess: A Friendship of the Heart in Mamlūk Egypt” and “Women in the Endowment System of the Mamlūk Period,” are being published in English for the first time. The volume is a window onto the intriguing, fascinating, and very informative world of classical Arabic biographical literature
Al-Sakhāwī, a biographer from Mamlūk Cairo and his <i>Dictionary of women</i>:studies by Renate Jacobi
No full textThe volume presents Renate Jacobi’s studies on the historian ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Sakhāwī (d. 902/1497) and his biographical dictionary al-Ḍawʾ al-lāmiʿ li-ahl al-qarn al-tāsiʿ with the special focus on the biographies of women. Al-Sakhāwī’s dictionary is exceptional in the history of classical Arabic biographical literature. Its twelfth and final volume featuring 1075 numbered biographical entries is devoted exclusively to women many of whom were known by the author in person. Renate Jacobi examines the life of al-Sakhāwī and analyzes his dictionary as a unique source for studying the social role of women in the Mamlūk period, their chances of taking up public space, and making a career of their own. The texts of the chapters in this volume have been adopted from previous publications by Renate Jacobi in different journals and edited volumes with some editorial modifications, additions and bibliographical updates. Two studies, “The Scholar and the Poetess: A Friendship of the Heart in Mamlūk Egypt” and “Women in the Endowment System of the Mamlūk Period,” are being published in English for the first time. The volume is a window onto the intriguing, fascinating, and very informative world of classical Arabic biographical literature
Schubert Gudrun, Würsch Renate (beschrieben von), Meier Fritz, Spiess Gertrud, Djeddikar Hedwig (vorarbeiten von), Schoeler Gregor (unter der Leitung von), Die Handschriften der Universitätsbibliothek Basel. Arabische Handschriften. Basel, Schwabe & Co. AG Verlag, 2001 (Schriften der Universitätsbibliothek Basel, Band 4)
No full textBauden Frédéric. Schubert Gudrun, Würsch Renate (beschrieben von), Meier Fritz, Spiess Gertrud, Djeddikar Hedwig (vorarbeiten von), Schoeler Gregor (unter der Leitung von), Die Handschriften der Universitätsbibliothek Basel. Arabische Handschriften. Basel, Schwabe & Co. AG Verlag, 2001 (Schriften der Universitätsbibliothek Basel, Band 4). In: Bulletin critique des annales islamologiques, n°20, 2004. pp. 128-129
What Determines the Shape of the Probability Weighting Function?
Get PDFWhen valuing risky prospects, people typically overweight small probabilities and underweight medium and large probabilities, but there is vast heterogeneity in individual behavior. We explore the relationship between person-specific probability weights, estimated from investment decisions in a laboratory experiment, and personal characteristics. We find considerable interaction effects with gender. While women’s probability weighting is strongly and significantly susceptible to mood states, men’s is not. Moreover, we show that cheerful and optimistic people weight probabilities of investment gains more favorably than do pessimistic people. People who calculate expected payoffs are less prone to probability distortions than those who do not use a lottery’s expected value as a decision criterion. None of the factors studied impact subjects’ valuations of monetary outcomes.Probability Weighting Function, Prospect Theory, Risk Aversion, Gender Differences
Gender, financial risk, and probability weights
Get PDFWomen are commonly stereotyped as more risk averse than men in financial decision making. In this paper we examine whether this stereotype reflects actual differences in risk taking behavior by means of a laboratory experiment with monetary incentives. Gender differences in risk taking may be due to differences in subjects’ valuations of outcomes or to the way probabilities are processed. The results of our experiment indicate that men and women differ in their probability weighting schemes; however, we do not find a significant difference in the value functions. Women tend to be less sensitive to probability changes and also tend to underestimate large probabilities of gains to a higher degree than do men, i.e. women are more pessimistic in the gain domain. The combination of both effects results in significant gender differences in average probability weights in lotteries framed as investment decisions. Women’s relative insensitivity to probabilities combined with pessimism may indeed lead to higher risk aversion.Gender Differences, Risk Aversion, Financial Decision Making, Prospect Theory
Climate Change, Weather Insurance Design and Hedging Effectiveness
Get PDFThe insurance industry has so far relied on historical data to develop and price weather insurance contracts. In light of climate change, we examine the effects of this practice in terms of the hedging effectiveness and profitability of insurance contracts. We use simulated crop and weather data for today’s and future climatic conditions to derive optimal weather insurance contracts. We assess the hedging effectiveness and profits of adjusted contracts that are designed with data that accounts for the changing distribution of weather and yields due to climate change. We find that, with climate change, the benefits from hedging with adjusted contracts almost triple and expected profits increase by about 240%. Furthermore, we investigate the effect on risk reduction (for the insured) and profits (for the insurer) from hedging future weather risks with non-adjusted contracts, which are based on historical weather and yield data. When offering non-adjusted insurance contracts, we find that insurers either face substantial losses, or generate profits that are significantly smaller than profits from offering adjusted insurance products. Non-adjusted insurance contracts that create profits in excess of the profits from adjusted contracts cause at the same time negative hedging benefits for the insured. We observe that non-adjusted contracts exist that create simultaneously positive profits and hedging benefits, however at a much larger uncertainty compared to the corresponding adjusted contracts.weather insurance design, climate change, non-stationarity, hedging effectiveness
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