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

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

The concept of risk-sharing in financial and social contracts is one of the unique features of Islamic finance.

Given the increasing uncertainty due to catastrophic climate events, terrorist attacks, and economic crises, this book addresses planning for resilience by focusing on sharing knowledge among policy-makers, urban planners, emergency teams and citizens.

This advanced undergraduate/graduate textbook teaches students in finance and economics how to use R to analyse financial data and implement financial models.

The book uses a systems-based approach to show how innovation is pervasive in all facets of endeavors, including business, industrial, government, the military, and even academia.

The world of options is considered high-risk by many.

In Before Conflict: Preventing Aggressive Behavior, John Byrnes gets to the heart of the concept of aggression prevention.

Over a period of several centuries, the academic study of risk has evolved as a distinct body of thought, which continues to influence conceptual developments in fields such as economics, management, politics and sociology.

In diesem Buch werden Konzepte zur Quantifizierung von Marktrisiken dargestellt.

Derivative trading?

This book presents the challenges of developing countries to understand and manage the risks of extreme natural events.

A text in decision theory with applications to economics, mathematics, finance, psychology, management, health, computer science, statistics, and engineering.

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

This book offers a practical presentation of stochastic partial differential equations arising in physical applications and their numerical approximation.

With contributions presented during the Second International Risk Management Conference, this second volume addresses important areas of risk management from a variety of angles and perspectives.

International Health and Safety at Work has been specially written in simple English for the thousands of students who complete the NEBOSH International General Certificate in Health and Safety each year.

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.

This proceedings volume includes articles presented during the Advanced Research Workshop on Soft Target Protection.

Well-being and Wellness: Psychosocial Risk Management is a companion to Health and Safety: Risk Management that describes the techniques and background knowledge for preventing injury and ill health in the workplace.

After a major disaster, when investigators are piecing together the story of what happened, a striking fact often emerges: before disaster struck, some people in the organization involved were aware of dangerous conditions that had the potential to escalate to a critical level.

This book makes a case for a STEM-based approach across the curriculum by highlighting the potential impacts of rapid societal change, newly emerging information technologies, and the increasing demand for a new generation of skillful and well-rounded citizens and workers.

This book aims to explain in clear, accessible language, the approach taken by government to corporate offending resulting in a fatality in both the United Kingdom and the United States.

The financial crisis of 2008 is probably the single most important economic event in post-war history.

This advanced undergraduate/graduate textbook teaches students in finance and economics how to use R to analyse financial data and implement financial models.

Die aktuellen Entwicklungen als Folge der 'Too big to fail'-Problematik haben das Bewusstsein für die besonderen Risiken in der Finanzbranche erhöht und neue Regulierungsmaßnahmen ausgelöst.

If you are curious about the basics of artificial intelligence, blockchain technology, and quantum computing as key enablers for digital transformation and innovation, Digital Fluency is your handy guide.

School District Master Planning: The Teaching Supplement-a guide to the book of the same name-is designed for instructors of graduate level courses in school district demographics and facilities planning, as well as for school district administrators in need of a practical reference text.

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.

Drawing on theory from anthropology, sociology, organisation studies and philosophy, this book addresses how the perception, communication and management of risk is shaped by culturally informed and socially embedded knowledge and experience.

The use of regional organizations to mitigate and respond to disasters has become a global trend.

Use this reference for IT security practitioners to get an overview of the major standards and frameworks, and a proposed architecture to meet them.

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Gilboa and Schmeidler provide paradigm for modelling decision making under uncertainty.

What does it take to change the world?

New EU Physical Agents Directives on Noise and Vibration will be incorporated into UK law by February 2006.

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.

Counterintelligence for Corporate Environments, Volume I provides the reader with unique, comprehensive, and efficient methodologies that will change and improve corporate security and operational models to the highest degree possible.

A challenge to the conventional wisdom surrounding financial risk, providing insight into why easy solutions to control the financial system are doomed to fail Finance plays a key role in the prosperity of the modern world-but it also brings grave dangers.

Taking continuous-time stochastic processes allowing for jumps as its starting and focal point, this book provides an accessible introduction to the stochastic calculus and control of semimartingales and explains the basic concepts of Mathematical Finance such as arbitrage theory, hedging, valuation principles, portfolio choice, and term structure modelling.

This book explains the tools and processes that allow changes in the way maintenance works.

A path to safety for protecting students from educator sexual misconduct, based on lessons learned from decades of past case

This study contributes to an existing and growing body of literature in the field of management accounting and control concerned with implications from increased uncertainty on MCS design and use.

In January 1976, Raymond Barre, the first President of The Geneva Association, and Orio Giarini, its first Secretary General, founded The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance with the main goal of supporting and encouraging research in the economics of risk and insurance.

This study develops a methodology for rapidly obtaining approximate estimates of the economic consequences from numerous natural, man-made and technological threats.

Effective risk management allows opportunities to be maximized and uncertainty to be minimized.

This book examines the role of risk management in the recent financial crisis and applies lessons from there to the national security realm.