Decision theory: general

Modern mortality modelling for actuaries and actuarial students, with example R code, to unlock the potential of individual data.

 This book revolves around the concept of financial risk tolerance and its role in financial markets.

This volume investigates different aspects of monetary policy and prevention of financial crises.

This book introduces readers to behavioral finance applied to wealth management.

Dynamic Risk Assessment is the key tool to support a holistic risk management framework.

This book presents new approaches to fixed income modeling and portfolio management techniques.

Across the world, organizations continue to be damaged and brought down by systemic non-compliance or the misdeeds of a few, and newspapers abound with examples of corporate and NGO scandals and crimes.

This book serves as a great reference for engineering technicians and researchers in a wide range of fields, including emergency management, public safety science, risk management, emergency communication, and transportation optimization.

Intangible, invisible and worth trillions, risk is everywhere.

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

Risk assessment is the key to successful management of health and safety at work.

This volume presents an economic framework for the analysis of resilience in relation to societal, environmental, and personal security perspectives.

Collective Vision: Igniting District and School Improvement describes a school district's 10-year journey of transformation.

This unique book provides a platform for resilience research, combining knowledge from various domains, such as genetics, primatology, archeology, geography, physical anthropology, cultural anthropology, medicine, ecology, psychology, risk management and systems science, in order to examine specific concepts.

This book explores the revolutionary intersection of Generative AI (GenAI) and cybersecurity.

This volume showcases the presentations and discussions delivered at the 2018 POMS International Conference in Rio.

Reliability Analysis and Asset Management of Engineering Systems explains methods that can be used to evaluate reliability and availability of complex systems, including simulation-based methods.

Analytical Finance is a comprehensive introduction to the financial engineering of equity and interest rate instruments for financial markets.

Uncertain computation is a system of computation and reasoning in which the objects of computation are not values of variables but restrictions on values of variables.

The baby boom generation were born between 1946 and 1964 and are the largest population cohort in US history.

Technology failures, data loss, issues with providers of outsourced services, misconduct and mis-selling are just some of the top risks that the financial industry faces.

This book examines the controversial issue of securitization in a global, historical context.

Dieses Buch beleuchtet das Thema finanzielles Wasserrisiko, indem es die Modellierungs-Herausforderungen untersucht, die mit physischem, regulatorischem und Ruf-bedingtem Wasserrisiko in der Finanzwelt verbunden sind.

This book presents a bold, unconventional plan to rescue our nation's schoolchildren from a failing public education system.

Companies are exposed to a large number of risks from different sources such as globalization, deregulation, environmental changes, technological changes, complicated financial models, and corporate governance changes.

Dieses Lehrbuch zeigt, wie Enterprise Risk Management einen Mehrwert in Strategie- und Entscheidungsprozessen schafft.

This book is a critical examination of the main ideas regarding disruptive change and startups.

Action Research: An Educational Leader's Guide to School Improvement, Fourth Edition, is a clear and practical guide to conducting action research in schools.

This book presents an overview of corporate governance and risk management, analyzing their interdependence and particularly their relevance in banking.

Learning history as only a collection of dates and names prevents us from seeing the true value of the past.

Thisbook addresses the gap between the widespread use of stock market multiples invaluation practice and the frontiers of research on multiples.

Executive Intelligence zeros in on leadership smarts and notes that in all lists compiled by leadership experts, head hunters, and boards of directors the one and only trait that appears in all is intelligence.

This book addresses the reliability, risk, and safety issues of real industrial systems with application of the latest reliability and risk-based modeling.

This book addresses information technologies recently applied in the field of construction safety.

There has been a lot of innovation in systems engineering and some fundamental advances in the fields of optics, imaging, lasers, and photonics that warrant attention.

Initially, introducing compliance functions within the financial industry had been forced by regulatory scrutiny.

This textbook will offer an introductory insight into the nature, role, and context of accounting information systems.

This book is devoted to the efforts of Environmental Health Practitioners (EHPs), their employers and supportive professional bodies world-wide in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic.

In the first book of its kind, Turnbull traces the development and implementation of actuarial ideas, from the conception of Equitable Life in the mid-18th century to the start of the 21st century.

This book presents the state-of-the-art applications of machine learning in the finance domain with a focus on financial product modeling, which aims to advance the model performance and minimize risk and uncertainty.

Since the mid-1990s risk management has undergone a dramatic expansion in its reach and significance, being transformed from an aspect of management control to become a benchmark of good governance for banks, hospitals, schools, charities and many other organizations.

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.

Effective financial planning for executives and entrepreneurs is complex, dense, and impossible to reduce to a single, easy-to-understand formula.

This book provides a quantitative overview of corporate risk management for both financial and non-financial organisations.

People often follow intuitive principles of decision making, ranging from group loyalty to the belief that nature is benign.

Threats to an organization's operations, such as fraud, IT disruption or poorly designed products, could result in serious losses.