Decision theory: general

This book provides new interdisciplinary and comparative answers as to why banking sectors in 'liberal' and 'coordinated' market economies operated under a shared set of rules during the Global Financial Crisis.

Thousands of people continue to die from heat.

This book sets out to reframe the theory of real options so that it can be used to support environmental investments for climate change adaptation and mitigation.

This textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to portfolio management and investments.

This book offers a practical solution for every organization that needs to monitor the effectiveness of their risk management.

This volume describes risk management practices in the construction industry in selected countries, with an emphasis on developing countries and how these countries can learn from the practices in more developed ones.

The book offers important insight relevant to Corporate, Government and Global organizations management in general.

The use of intelligence in manufacturing has emerged as a fascinating subject for academics and businesses everywhere.

This volume, inspired by and dedicated to the work of pioneering investment analyst, Jack Treynor, addresses the issues of portfolio risk and return and how investment portfolios are measured.

This SpringerBrief introduces methodologies and tools for quantitative understanding and assessment of supply chain risk to critical infrastructure systems.

We as humans are prone to a variety of wired-in cognitive mistakes in the way we interpret and react to risk-related information.

This book offers an overview of knowledge management.

Renowned probability theorist Edward O.

This book provides thorough coverage of the institutional applications of equity derivatives.

This book sheds new light on the Greek economic challenges and helps readers understand the current debt crisis.

This book focuses on ways to better manage and prevent aircraft-based homicide events while in flight using alternate technology to replace the Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR) and/or Digital Flight Data Recorder (DFDR) functions.

In Comfy Shoes and Keychains, Hruby uses the power of storytelling to provide tips and insightful lessons on confidence, self-care, communication, engagement, burnout and more.

In How to Make Decisions with Different Kinds of Student Assessment Data, best-selling author Susan M.

This book analyzes cyberdefense from a novel and interdisciplinary perspective, offering solutions for problems that have long impeded a more efficient defense.

Introduction to Nuclear Engineering serves as an accompanying study guide for a complete, introductory single-semester course in nuclear engineering.

Use better thinking to empower yourself, discover opportunities, avoid disastrous mistakes, build wealth, and achieve your biggest goals!

This volume describes risk management practices in the construction industry in selected countries, with an emphasis on developing countries and how these countries can learn from the practices in more developed ones.

Knowledge in an Uncertain World is an exploration of the relation between knowledge, reasons, and justification.

Gives insight into eliminating specific classes of hazards, while providing real case histories with valuable messages.

The Essentials of Finance for School Leaders: A Practical Handbook for Problem-Solving and Meeting Challenges is carefully authored to provide supervisory practitioners at the school building level with the vital tools of school finance literacy alongside an understanding of school finance policy that impacts the everyday operation of today's public schools.

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.

The concept of rationality is a common thread through the human and social sciences - from political science to philosophy, from economics to sociology, and from management science to decision analysis.

This introduction to critical thinking focuses on an integrated, universal concept of critical thinking that is both substantive and practical.

Consumer credit is an integral part of many western societies.

This book is the first to approach healthcare informatics from the perspective of innovation.

This book aims to encourage a more reflective, multidisciplinary approach to public safety, and the 'reenfranchisement' of those affected by this new phenomenon.

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

This volume continues to highlight the latest research contributions presented at the annual Wroclaw conference in Finance (Poland), covering a wide range of topics in the field.

This text highlights the role of artificial intelligence-powered robots and automation systems in revolutionizing digital manufacturing, covers prod-uct design and customization, and discusses various artificial intelligence algorithms for manufacturing processes and supply chain optimization.

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

Banks play a crucial role in the global economy, yet they are vulnerable to failures that can have catastrophic effects.

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

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

This book provides a holistic and practical approach to managing supply chains risks and presents a new framework model for sustainable optimization of risk management.

This book explores consumer protection in the major financial markets in the world and provides an international comparison among the countries of different cultural background and economic development.

A company's reputation is one of its most valuable assets, and reputational risk is high on the agenda at board level and amongst regulators.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, parents were able to observe their children in online classes.

Managing Disaster Risks to Cultural Heritage presents case studies from different regions in the world and establishes a framework for understanding, identifying, and analysing disaster risks to immovable cultural heritage.

This book contributes to the multidisciplinary debate about social-ecological systems (SES) within the perspective of rethinking the nature of interaction between these systems, especially in the Anthropocene Era.

This SpringerBrief uses a complexity perspective to integrate risk, finance, and ecological issues in Miami, USA.

This book bridges the gap between risk assessment and fire safety engineering like few other resources.

Predictive analytics refers to making predictions about the future based on different parameters which are historical data, machine learning, and artificial intelligence.

This book provides a framework for making administration effective and improving mitigation and rehabilitation measures with a view to ensuring a safer life for citizens.

Der vorliegende Leitfaden wurde im Rahmen eines wissenschaftlichen Forschungsprojekts entwickelt und in einer realen Praxisanwendung validiert.

This book introduces the principles and theories of fatigue statistics and presents the Zhentong Gao method along with its practical applications.