Risk assessment

This is the second book in the Crime at Work series.

An introductory guide to finance and the financial markets, designed to help professionals and students understand the complex finance industry.

This book analyses and confronts the functioning of guarantee systems for SMEs in countries where these schemes had an important development.

More than ever, banking competition is based on the ability to control the cost of risk and can only be managed with excellent internal rating models and very advanced risk management processes.

The banking industry extensively lobbied against Basel III and governments have been keen to delay its full implementation.

Updated and revised, this second edition applies advanced financial analytics within a strategic framework that recognizes an environment where sustainable competitive advantage is a progressively more difficult task.

A survey of past financial crises, starting with the great banking collapses of the interwar period.

Assembling a high profile group of scholars and practitioners, this book investigates the interplay of forecasting; warnings about, and responses to, known and unknown transnational risks.

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

This text comprises a selection of papers that provide state of the art insights into bank performance, risk and firm financing post crisis that were presented at the European Association of University Teachers of Banking and Finance Conference (otherwise known as the Wolpertinger Conference) held at Bangor University, Wales, 2010.

This text comprises a selection of papers that provide state-of-the-art insights into research focusing on dimensions of bank strategy, governance and the role of credit rating agencies that were presented at the European Association of University Teachers of Banking and Finance Conference, September 2010.

Tuckett argues that most economists' explanations of the financial crisis miss its essence; they ignore critical components of human psychology.

Having the right investment beliefs and putting them into practice is key to delivering the right results.

This book presents the state-of-the-art with respect to credit risk evaluation and pricing within the contemporary global banking and financial system.

Restructuring the balance sheets of Western governments, banks and households is an important issue in the recovery after the recent crisis.

Presents new methods in scenario thinking, based on a mix of high-level research and top-level consultancy experience.

This book sheds light on the emotional side of risk taking behaviour using an innovative cross-disciplinary approach, mixing financial competences with psychology and affective neuroscience.

This book proposes new methods to build optimal portfolios and to analyze market liquidity and volatility under market microstructure effects, as well as new financial risk measures using parametric and non-parametric techniques.

The relationship between risk, return and the cost of capital is contextualized by relating it to the needs of investors and borrowers, the historical evidence, and theories of choice and behavior.

This book explains what is behind the wave of increasingly frequent and severe financial crises since the 1980s.

This collection of conference papers presents a contemporary insight into key trends impacting on the global financial sector post crisis and highlights new policy and research areas affecting banks and other financial institutions.

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

This book analyzes the post-subprime crisis world from the global, Asian and Chinese perspectives.

This book identifies the pitfalls of applying precautionary strategies to high-stakes risks that have already become entrenched.

Improving Banking Supervision shows how greater market discipline can be used to help improve the quality of banks and their management in a world of increasing complexity, size and innovation.

This book provides an extensive and critical assessment of the current regulatory and supervisory framework of investment services in the European Union (EU) and proposes alternative institutional structures.

The current crisis is emerging as the most severe downturn since the Great Depression.

This is an inspiring, and practical book about seeing more of the future markets than the competitors.

This book explains how financial institutions, such as banks and finance houses, manage their portfolios of credit cards, loans, mortgages and other types of retail credit agreements.

Globalization and the financial crisis highlight the problems caused by worldwide banking organizations and force financial groups to reassess their development strategies.

This volume contributes to empirical research on the role of national fiscal rules and institutions in shaping fiscal policies.

This edited volume contains essential readings for financial analysts and market practitioners working at Central Banks and Sovereign Wealth Funds.

The threat we face from high-stakes risk has never been higher.

The book argues that a successful monetary and banking reform requires: a rollback of monetary nationalism and return to monetary internationalism; trust in the banking system with its basic functions restored; a balance between competition and solidarity in order to assure political and social acceptance of globalization.

A fascinating discussion of the role played by fear in financial market panics.

This is an edited collection of essential readings on Reserves Management and Sovereign Wealth Management, from the recent SAA conference organized by the Bank for International Settlements, the European Central Bank and the World Bank Treasury.

Challenging existing ideas about not only what constitutes retail shrinkage, but also the approach that should be adopted to deal with it, it critically examines how current approaches to managing shrinkage are at best preventative, and how through operational excellence, organizations can reduce the impact it has on their profitability.

The book addresses the vital issue of how business leaders can prepare themselves to deal with the impact of unexpected events.

Durable business performance is crucially dependent on a stakeholders' strategy and accessible entrepreneurial finance available within macro-economic and regulatory environments.

The risk process commonly used in the corporate world to deal with risks may be suitable for non-catastrophic events, but not for extreme events.

A comprehensive book on shipping derivatives and risk management which covers the theoretical and practical aspects of financial risk in shipping.

This book provides a thorough introduction to pricing and risk management of modern financial instruments formulated in precise mathematical language, covering all relevant topics with such a depth of detail that readers are enabled to literally develop their own pricing and risk tools.

Despite the huge expansion in consumer credit in the last 25 years there are very few texts describing the operation of consumer credit markets.

The subject of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is continuing on its journey of affecting each and every individual and will keep on this path in the times to come.

Recent surveys of the U.

Occupational Safety and Hygiene presents selected papers from the International Symposium on Occupational Safety and Hygiene , SHO2013 (Guimar,, Portugal, 14-15 February 2013), which was organized by the Portuguese Society for Occupational Safety and Hygiene (SPOSHO).

Covering a wide range of topics on safety, reliability and risk management, the present publication will be of interest to academics and professionals working in a wide range of scientific, industrial and governmental sectors, including: Aeronautics and Aerospace; Chemical and Process Industry; Civil Engineering; Critical Infrastructures; Energy; Information Technology and Telecommunications; Land Transportation; Manufacturing; Maritime Transportation; Mechanical Engineering; Natural Hazards; Nuclear Industry; Offshore Industry; Policy Making and Public Planning.

With industrial systems becoming ever more mechanized and reliant on advanced technology, the complexity of equipment, especially in risky industries, is increasing on a daily basis.

Non-destructive evaluation (NDE) methods have dominated most of the fields of applied research and technology over the last twenty years.

The basis for much of medical public health practice comes from epidemiological research.