Mit weniger Angst zur Herz-OP

Pr?operatives Pflegemanagement - Mit der Card AG pflegt das Herzzentrum Münster eine sehr intensive Form zus?tzlicher Vorbereitung auf eine anstehende Herzoperation bei Kindern. Ziel des bundesweit einzigartigen Projekts: Anschauliche Informationen im Vorfeld der OP sollen Eltern und Kindern ?ngste nehmen und so den Genesungsprozess positiv beeinflussen.     

Testing the risk as feeling and risk as analysis perspective for insurance: the antecedents of purchasing unit-linked life insurance products

Risk and uncertainty are critical to human decision-making. Yet our understanding of the underlying traits that present the foundation of decision-making remains limited. The work develops a causal model of the antecedents of consumers’ purchase behavior in the context of unit-linked life insurance products. Our experimental approach (n?=?929) builds on the risk as analysis and risk as feeling perspective, which entails huge theoretical and practical contributions. Risk avoidance and uncertainty avoidance are identified to strongly influence the product perceptions. We complement our findings by investigating the conditions that favor the influence of both traits by investigating moderating effects.     

ESTIMATING MONETARY POLICY RULES FOR SOUTH AFRICA

The paper combines the estimation of the Monetary Conditions Index (MCI) with the theoretic modelling of optimal monetary policy in South Africa. The idea that monetary policy is not only interested in optimal monetary conditions but also in external stability, provides the basis for the analysis. The paper introduces the concept of the MCI and estimates the relative influence of interest rates and exchange rates on the output gap. The estimated weights are 1.9:1. This estimation results is used to specify operating target rules for South African monetary policy.