Decision theory: general

This book provides an account of the underlying mathematics of mechanism design based on linear programming.

'A brilliant book' Daniel Kahneman, author of Thinking, Fast and Slow A book that can show you how to change your behaviour' Evening StandardA child is presented with a marshmallow and given a choice: Eat this one now, or wait and enjoy two later.

Monte-Carlo techniques have increasingly become a key method used in quantitative research.

This book provides a methodology, grounded in prior research, for analyzing supply chain vulnerabilities and determining appropriate strategic sourcing approaches firms can adopt for managing risk and ensuring supply chain resilience.

Following the Great Financial Crisis, the S&P 500 advanced more than 17 percent annualized from February 2009 through June 2018.

Why have decades of school reform had so little measurable effect on student achievement?

Dieses Buch aus der Reihe "Studienwissen kompakt" bietet einen Komplettüberblick über alle wesentlichen Teilbereiche des Risikomanagements.

Explores how decision-makers can manage uncertainty that varies in both kind and severity by extending and supplementing Bayesian decision theory.

In the same way as the 4Ps of marketing are a fundamental principle of business theory, this book puts forward the 10Ps of Risk Management as a consistent and comprehensive approach to the subject.

This textbook is intended to fill a gap in undergraduate finance curriculums by providing an asset pricing text that is accessible for undergraduate finance students.

Risk and Morality examines how decisions about risk and uncertainty relate to moral principles and ethical conduct.

Your business reputation can take years to build and mere minutes to destroy The range of business threats is evolving rapidly but your organization can thrive and gain a competitive advantage with your business vision for enterprise risk management.

The field of risk science continues to learn from the long history of events to develop principles and practices that enable individuals, organizations, and societies to understand and manage future risk.

This book presents a broad overview of risk management in the banking industry, with a special focus on strategic thinking and decision-making.

Introducing the fundamentals of retail credit risk management, this book provides a broad and applied investigation of the related modeling theory and methods, and explores the interconnections of risk management, by focusing on retail and the constant reference to the implications of the financial crisis for credit risk management.

Invaluable insights on trading today's futures market The CME Risk Management Handbook provides an accessible overview of the futures market in today's electronic world of trading.

The book features eight studies related to governance and risk.

The risk of counterparty default in banking, insurance, institutional, and pension-fund portfolios is an area of ongoing and increasing importance for finance practitioners.

Parents, lawmakers, supervisors, and unions are among the many constituencies that demand influence, if not control, of the educational process.

Management process groups along with the processes in the knowledge areas having to do with the principles and concepts used in the development of major construction activities are very important in the overall construction management process.

This new edition is completely revamped and reorganized to reflect the change in standards and regulations and to include all new topics related to organizational sustainability and risk management.

Natural disasters, terrorist attacks, financial collapses, and other crisis situations have occupied public attention to an unprecedented degree in recent years.

This book tackles the problem of complexity within IT environments, i.

People Risk Management provides unique depth to a topic that has garnered intense interest in recent years.

This book introduces and explains the parametric accelerated life testing (ALT) methodology as a new reliability methodology based on statistics, to help avoid recalls of products in the marketplace.

In this book the author develops a new approach to uncertainty in economics, which calls for a fundamental change in the methodology of economics.

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

As the world is currently in the midst of financial and economic crises, this collection of expert contributions focuses on strategy formation and implementation at various organizational levels to address the challenges ahead.

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

This book provides an insight in the phenomenon of Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A), including the various forms of corporate restructuring.

The Blame Machine describes how disasters and serious accidents result from recurring, but potentially avoidable, human errors.

This is a book about the development of dependable, embedded software.

A step-by-step guidebook for understanding-and implementing-integrated financial risk measurement and managementThe Fundamentals of Risk Measurement introduces the state-of-the-art tools and practices necessary for planning, executing, and maintaining risk management in today s volatile financial environment.

This book focuses on the management of ship operations, an activity that requires integrative knowledge and technical expertise that spans various disciplines.

You are living proof that you are already a smart thinker you've navigated life well enough to have survived so far.

This book directs the engineering manager or the undergraduate student preparing to become an engineering manager, who is or will become actively engaged in the management of economic-risk trade-off decisions for engineering investments within an organizational system.

This work illustrates how risk management can be applied to educational systems in general, and STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) education in particular.

This book is the outcome of the CIMPA School on Statistical Methods and Applications in Insurance and Finance, held in Marrakech and Kelaat M'gouna (Morocco) in April 2013.

This book covers advanced reliability and maintainability knowledge as applied to recent engineering problems.

This book covers Operational Risk Management (ORM), in the current context, and its new role in the risk management field.

A multi-disciplinary exploration of how we can help decision makers to deliberate and make better decisions.

A proactive, ground-level approach to student support that helps ameliorate the effects of socioeconomic challenges and improves outcomes for students, families, and communities

Rice is cultivated throughout the world under submerged conditions.

In this book, Sidney Dekker sets out to identify the market mechanisms that explain how less government paradoxically leads to greater compliance burdens.

Quantitative methods have revolutionised the area of trading, regulation, risk management, portfolio construction, asset pricing and treasury activities, and governmental activity such as central banking.

This book pulls together robust practices in Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM) from other disciplines and shows how they can be used in the area of Banking and Finance.

Info-metrics is a framework for modeling, reasoning, and drawing inferences under conditions of noisy and insufficient information.