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Risk and FDI

…results as showing that an increase in sovereign risk in the origin country discouraged risk-taking by multinational firms based there, while the increase in risk in the host country caused…

Decoding Medicare Advantage

…from cherry-picking health enrollees. The risk adjustment program pays plans more for enrollees with higher “risk scores,” calculated on the basis of enrollees’ diagnosed medical conditions. Plans have various means…

The Credit Rating Game

…don’t know). That is issuers of credit pay for ratings from all the major agencies — the fees being tiny compared to the added reputational value of a second opinion….

The Long Reach of U.S. Monetary Policy

…in her 2019 Jackson Hole presentation, “U.S. Monetary Policy and International Risk Spillovers.” In her analysis, there are two components of risk, global risk and country-specific risk, and these are…