Risk assessment

From the bestselling author of The Black Swan, a bold book that challenges many of our long-held beliefs about risk and reward, politics and religion, finance and personal responsibility'Skin in the game means that you do not pay attention to what people say, only to what they do, and how much of their neck they are putting on the line'Citizens, artisans, police, fishermen, political activists and entrepreneurs all have skin in the game.

Dealing with high-stakes risk potentials is dependent on getting to grips with easy to understand, yet difficult to apply, criteria for decision.

Financial intermediaries typically offer derivatives to their customers only when they can hedge the exposures from these transactions.

This important book brings together an edited series of papers about risk management and the latest developments in the field.

Asset management Standards discussion's main focus on governance issues matches the established structural components of the Asset Management Standard's systematic classification.

Incorporating an accurate measure of risk is important to the appraisal of an international investment.

The book features eight studies related to governance and risk.

Financial institutions are increasingly providing Islamic financial contracts in global markets.

This is an invaluable and comprehensive book, providing cutting-edge asset protection processes.

This book presents practical Risk Management and Trading applications for the Electricity Markets.

This book provides a thorough analysis of risk management in emerging markets.

Written by an experienced academic and practitioner, Operational Risk Management fills a gap in the information available on the Basel 2 Accord and offers valuable insights into the nature of operational risk.

The book presents arguments that are critical of the Basel II Accord, particularly the advanced measurement approach to operational risk.

Despite the growing interest in security amongst governments, organizations and the general public, the provision of much security is substandard.

Energy Risk Modeling is a primer on statistical methods for managers, students and anybody interested in the field.

Consumer credit is an integral part of many western societies.

The authors provide the reader with an extensive tool set for active and successful management of fixed income portfolios as well as for credits.

Gorrod examines the many challenges for the next generation risk management system.

Economic studies which examine the financing patterns of firms, particularly in emerging markets seldom consider the market environment in which they operate.

'Investors beware' is good advice in any situation, especially when dealing with the control of risk and alternative investments.

In the 1990s shareholder value was applied to all aspects of corporate strategy and management decisions as a result of intense competition, globalization, advances in technology, deregulation and the financial markets.

Targeted towards institutional asset managers in general and chief investment officers, portfolio managers and risk managers in particular, this practical book serves as a comprehensive guide to quantitative portfolio optimization, asset allocation and risk management.

The authors present a comprehensive and timely discussion of economic capital and financial risk management for financial services firms and conglomerates.

This book describes how the rules of accounting are developed.

Reputation is a commercially valuable asset.

Climate Trading provides a comprehensive overview of the emerging greenhouse gas emissions trading markets.

Corporate Governance is a text which considers the problems surrounding governance and proposes solutions to help restore investor confidence in the corporate world.

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

Alliances and Co-Evolution provides alliance managers, consultants and academics with a detailed analysis covering 23 years of the growth and decline of three lifecycles of alliances.

Risk communication helps companies, governments and institutions minimise disputes, resolve issues and anticipate problems before they result in an irreversible breakdown in communications.

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 provides thorough coverage of the institutional applications of equity derivatives.

The book contains a comprehensive review of all aspects of credit control: analysis and presentation for a decision; structure; monitoring; and damage limitation.

This important book offers unique insights into crime and its prevention in retailing.

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.