Risk assessment

A number of dramatic changes are currently reshaping infrastructure, a sector that investors and asset managers have traditionally considered to be a safe harbor in the field of alternative investments.

Every year, financial services organizations make billions of dollars worth of decisions using automated systems.

International Health and Safety at Work has been specially written in simple English for the thousands of students who complete the NEBOSH International General Certificate in Health and Safety each year.

This book offers 14 contributions that examine key questions in bank decision-taking,constitution of confidence in banks and risk management practices from Early Modernity to the twentieth century.

The textbook discusses risk management in capital markets and presents various techniques of portfolio optimization.

This is the first English language book to systematically introduce basic theories, methods and applications of disaster risk science from the angle of different subjects including disaster science, emergency technology and risk management.

This book attempts to look into the genesis of security culture as a concept which emerged with the recognition of the role of the human factor in the context of security.

This book provides the statistical basis for quantitative risk management by presenting and explaining the most important distributions.

The Front Office Manual is unique, providing clear and direct explanations of tools and techniques relevant to front office work.

The textbook discusses risk management in capital markets and presents various techniques of portfolio optimization.

In January 1976, Raymond Barre, the first President of The Geneva Association, and Orio Giarini, its first Secretary General, founded The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance with the main goal of supporting and encouraging research in the economics of risk and insurance.

This book explores issues related to green and sustainable finance which aims at the transformation of economies into a new, more sustainable model.

This book discusses disaster risks and hazards as well as measures to increase people's resilience.

This book presents peer-reviewed articles from the 1st International Conference on Dam Safety Management and Engineering (ICDSME 2019), organized by the Malaysian National Committee on Large Dams (MYCOLD), Tenaga Nasional Berhad (TNB), Department of Irrigation and Drainage (DID) and Universiti Tenaga Nasional (UNITEN).

Our world is becoming ever more complex.

Understand the safe engineering of ship-shaped offshore installations with this fully updated second edition.

This SpringerBrief uses a complexity perspective to integrate risk, finance, and ecological issues in Miami, USA.

Occupational safety and health management theory is now rightly focused on pro-activity, risk assessment and management.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of using artificial intelligence and quantitative approaches in many phases of flight safety management, from proactive assessment of potential risks of flights before taking-off to automatic analysis of occurred flight events, for commercial airlines.

Why was the Italian Banking System more resilient during the sub-prime crisis and harder-hit in the sovereign crisis?

Why should a company have an operational risk management function and how should it be organized?

The concept of risk-sharing in financial and social contracts is one of the unique features of Islamic finance.

With contributions presented during the Second International Risk Management Conference, this second volume addresses important areas of risk management from a variety of angles and perspectives.

Updated and revised, the third edition frames strategy as delivering firm value in both the short and long term while maintaining a sustainable competitive advantage.

This book discusses the theory, method, and practice of risk economics and also examines climate change and disaster's theoretical and practical implications on capital formation and accumulation in the contemporary economic system.

This book is a simple and concise text on the subject of security analysis and portfolio management.

The book covers the broad area of Corporate Governance (CG) and its constituents.

In spite of the robust development of venture capital that has occurred over the last three decades, returns from venture capital have been declining.

Decision analysis has become widely recognized as an important process for translating science into management actions.

This book explores the emerging field of risk management and risk analysis of cryptocurrencies, an area that has been generating considerable research.

Analysis of the current financial/economic crisis from the Director of the Banking Sector at the FSA (Financial Services Authority).

This book has unique features that set it apart from conventional books on the prevention of system failures in that it provides a method that views human activities from a meta-methodological perspective based upon an inter-disciplinary understanding of human activities.

This volume, inspired by and dedicated to the work of pioneering investment analyst, Jack Treynor, addresses the issues of portfolio risk and return and how investment portfolios are measured.

At a time when our knowledge and understanding of health and safety at work is at its highest, statistics show that ongoing improvements in accident rates and time taken off work due to injury and ill-health are stagnating.

This book examines the interpretation of the risk-based approach (RBA) and its application across the banking industry.

This book introduces readers to a new approach to identifying stock market bubbles by using the illiquidity premium, a parameter derived by employing conic finance theory.

Tim Nießer widmet sich in diesem Buch kostenbezogenen Vorgaben für die Konstruktion von Produkten, die für den anonymen Absatzmarkt hergestellt werden, wobei diese Vorgaben insbesondere der daraus resultierenden Risikosituation Rechnung tragen sollen.

Reputation is a commercially valuable asset.

This book provides a complete analysis of the logistic market, with a special focus on performance and risk characteristics, demand and supply, and diversification strategy.

This proceedings volume contains research trends, issues and developments in global economics and management with particular focus on the digital postindustrial economy-Economy 4.

This book reviews dominant crisis communication theories, which according to many scholars are either too narrow or broad for practical application to all types of reputational crises.

This textbook rethinks derivatives in a structured manner.

This practical guide covers the steps necessary to sustain quality in a project from start to finish.

Transparency and Public Participation for Radioactive Waste Management in Europe investigates how the pillars of the Aarhus Convention, and a broader understanding of transparency by Civil Society (CS), can be transposed into Radioactive Waste Management (RWM), particularly in the establishment of Radioactive Waste (RW) facilities in different national contexts.

Connects a qualitative perspective of environmental management with the quantitative skills used by engineering and applied science students.

This textbook demonstrates how Enterprise Risk Management creates value in strategic- and decision-making-processes.

This book presents a selection of the best papers from the 16th International Conference on Business Excellence, "e;New Challenges of the Century.

The latest research on measuring, managing and pricing financial risk.

Addressing a need for innovative solutions to challenges facing organisations today, this book explores the concept of Knowledge Risk Management (KRM), outlining how this new approach can be implemented in the banking sector.