Decision theory: general

To make decision theory realistic, I show how to choose rationally when possible outcomes have imprecise probabilities and utilities.

Offers an up-to-date, unified treatment of combinatorial algorithms to solve network flow problems for graduate students and professionals.

Within Europe, employment law has grown as a result of regional rather than national legislation.

Today, early-stage investors and entrepreneurs find themselves in a dilemma in which they must choose between profit and impact; between traditional, for-profit-only models on the one hand, and multiple-bottom-line structures with a positive social or environmental impact on the other.

Risk and Return in Asian Emerging Markets offers readers a firm insight into the risk and return characteristics of leading Asian emerging market participants by comparing and contrasting behavioral model variables with predictive forecasting methods.

This Brief discusses the translation of global environmental norms across local contexts in France.

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.

This book focuses on several topical issues related to the operational risk management in bank: regulation, organisation and strategy.

Now in its fifth edition, this book offers a detailed yet concise introduction to the growing field of statistical applications in finance.

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

This book analyses the effect of biological risk on business and management by considering case studies from Malaysia, Lebanon, and G20 countries during the COVID-19 pandemic.

This book examines the effects of the pandemic on supply chains and consequent adjustments made by companies to cope with these effects.

Seit der Erstveröffentlichung von Nudge im Jahr 2008 und dem Nobelpreis für Richard Thaler 2017 ist dieses Buch zu einem Klassiker geworden.

This book provides an end-to-end view of revenue management in the hospitality industry.

This book presents a high-quality contribution to the applications of modern financial algorithms for liquidity risk management and its practical uses and applications to investable portfolios and mutual funds.

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

In the decades following World War II, the science of decision-making moved from the periphery to the center of transatlantic thought.

A revolutionary new approach for detecting and managing inherent riskThe unprecedented turmoil in the financial markets turned the field of quantitative finance on its head and generated severe criticism of the statistical models used to manage risk and predict black swan events.

Drawing a transdisciplinary perspective, this book investigates the ways in which gender intersect with rebuilding and post-disaster recovery process.

A wide-ranging discussion of factors that impede the cumulation of knowledge in the social sciences, with suggested solutions.

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

This textbook presents a comprehensive treatment of the legal arrangement of the corporation, the instruments and institutions through which capital can be raised, the management of the flow of funds through the individual firm, and the methods of dividing the risks and returns among the various contributors of funds.

Teachers stand at the intersection of educational goals, directing students down the road to success or to the byways of diminished opportunities.

Why is it that incredibly unlikely phenomena actually happen quite regularly and why should we, in fact, expect such things to happen?

Global competition is forcing reliability and other professionals to work closely during the product design and manufacturing phase.

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.

This book examines the monetary and financial foundations for actively pursuing outer space exploration, development, and settlement.

This book offers managers a complete analysis of the various issues of credit risk management for trade credit financing instruments supported by applications to various types of markets and presents an analysis on risks associated with trade credit in supply chains.

The world's financial landscape is transforming as economies become increasingly interdependent.

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 will serve as a practical guide for entrepreneurs and investors/advisors in constructing and understanding valuations of startups in rapidly shifting industries, including the areas of drug development, medical devices, cyber security, and renewable energy.

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.

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.

This book introduces a state-of-art approach in evaluating portfolio management and risk based on artificial intelligence and alternative data.

This book gives a self-contained, intuitive overview of some of the most important topics of finance, such as investment risk, market pricing and market efficiency, arbitrage, hedging, and the pricing and application of financial derivatives.

Updated insight into key facts impacting on financial institutions after the financial crisis, highlighting areas of major policy and academic interest.

The book covers alternative lending using the emergence of Debt Funds in the EU as a case study.

This book analyses investment management policies for institutional investors.

Presents various challenges faced by security policy makers and risk analysts, and mathematical approaches that inform homeland security policy development and decision support Compiled by a group of highly qualified editors, this book provides a clear connection between risk science and homeland security policy making and includes top-notch contributions that uniquely highlight the role of risk analysis for informing homeland security policy decisions.

Our students aren't learning, we're falling behind other countries, and many of our college graduates are even functionally illiterate.

This book aims to form part of the growing literature on the banking system in developing countries in its aim to show the levels of stability in the banking sector of small economies.

This book provides insights from research and practice in how organizations were able to sustain resilience in their global supply chains during the COVID-19 pandemic and to advance the understanding of supply chain risk management.

Climate change is defining structural modifications that affect the economy and the financial system.

Explores methods for the representation and treatment of uncertainty in risk assessment In providing guidance for practical decision-making situations concerning high-consequence technologies (e.

This book is written to empower risk professionals to turn analytics and models into deployable solutions with minimal IT intervention.

This book offers new insights on banking business models, risks and regulation proposals in the aftermath of the European financial crisis.

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