Risk Theory

24 important questions on Risk Theory

Different sources of risk in food production

  • Production or operational risks
  • Price or market risk
  • Institutional risk
  • Human or personal risks
  • Financial risk

Production or operation risk:

Potential losses resulting from inadequate management failure, fraud and human error

Price or market risk:

Changers in financial market prices and interest rates will reduce the monetary
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What are 7 steps of risk management?

  1. Establish context
  2. Identify important risky decision problems
  3. Structure problem
  4. Analyse options and consequences
  5. Evaluate and decide
  6. Implement and manage
  7. Monitor and review

What happens in step 1. Establish context ?

  • What are the stake holder of my business
  • Who in the business is responsible for which category of risk

What happens in step 2. Identify and rank risk

Which risk should be managed:
  • Make list of all possible risk
  • Rank the risk
  • Identify the main risk

What happens in step 3. Structure problem ?

  • Who faces risk
  • Who suffer if things go wrong
  • What are the cause
  • How is risk management
  • What are the other options
  • Who decides

Step. 4 Analyse options and consequences

Risk assessment:

Risk= Probability * Effect

Step 6. Implement and Manage

Doing what that’s been decided upon
Smal business: easy vs big business: difficult

What happens in step 7. Monitor and review?

  • Maintain/update the risk management plan as needed
  • If choices were made under imperfect information some options may be unsatisfactory
  • Are the further decisions to be made
  • Is there new information available

What are measure the reduce risk ?

  • HACCP
  • Certification
  • Tracking & tracing system
  • education of personnel
  • Goog equipment
  • Etc.

What information does economics add to risk assessment?

  1. More information than only technical information
  2. Ranking of the alternatives
  3. Marginal costs of benefits of one extra level of food safety
  4. Distribution of cost and benefits of er the chain

What are conditions to risk to be insurable ?

  1. There must be large number of exposure units
  2. Loss must be accidental and determinable
  3. Loss should not be catastrophic
  4. The probability of loss must be calculable
  5. The premiums must be economically feasible

What are the two insurance to food safety problems ?

  • Product liability insurance
  • Product recall insurance

What are product liability insurance ?

  • Protects from claims related to manufactured or sold food (or other goods) to the public
  • Covers the manufacture or seller liability for losse or injured to buyer


What is product recall insurance? 

  • Provides protection if you must recall a product
  • Cover product recall expense and liability to third parties seeking damages because your product recall could cause a loss of income or dagje their reputation

What is precautionary principle?


Designed to ensure that the absence of scientific certainty isn’t use a reason of postponing actions that could procent people and environment when there’s a credible threat os serious or irreversible harm


Max-min approach: choose the alternative that maximise the minimum (effect) outcome.

What 3 types of probability ?

  • A Priori probability: known outcome. -ex. ROgling a dice, roulette wheel

  • Statistical probability: observed frequencies used to predict outcomes

  • Estimated probability (uncertainty) - most common, demands judgement

What is the expected utility theory?

Chose that option that provides the maximum utility

What is subjective expected utility theory ?

  • Optimal choice base on comparison of the exported Ulithi or the risky choice vs the ‘certainty’ equivalent
  • These are methods to represent this ‘risk attitude’ in economic analysis

What is objective risk ?

  • Estigmata form historical observation of frequency and consequence
  • Assuming we are able to predict the future

What is subjective risk ?

  • Risk concerns thoughts and beliefs
  • Level of perceived risk is a subjective risk judgement

What is impact of risk perception ?

  • Societal acceptance/tolerance of various hazards activities
  • Influences food safety behaviours of individuals

What is risk homeostasis?

People act so that level of risk the feel exposed to is roughly constant.
  • Better brakes on cars lead to faster driving
  • Better hygiene in slaughterhouse make people take risks at home

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