Decision theory: general

Since the publication of the second edition in 2013, there has been an increasing interest in asset management globally, as evidenced by a series of international standards on asset management systems, to achieve excellence in asset management.

An exploration of key concepts in the study of animal communication, covering case studies as well as more theoretical issues.

How might one determine if a financial institution is taking risk in a balanced and productive manner?

Manuela Spangler deals with the default risk modelling of German covered bonds (Pfandbriefe).

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.

Cross Country Pipeline Risk Assessments and Mitigation Strategies describes the process of pipeline risk management and hazard identification, using qualitative risk assessment, consequence modeling/evaluation, pipeline failure rates, and risk calculations, as well as risk mitigation and control strategies.

In this lively and practical book, seasoned educator Jonathan Cassie shines a spotlight on gamification, an instructional approach that's revolutionizing K-12 education.

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

In any organization, risk plays a huge role in the success or failure of any business endeavour.

Since the Global Financial Crisis,  the structure of financial markets has undergone a dramatic shift.

The market for financial derivatives is far and away the largest and most powerful market in the world, and it is growing exponentially.

This book provides a thorough analysis of risk management in emerging markets.

This book covers power systems cybersecurity.

Design Methods and Practices for Research of Project Management is the most comprehensive guide on how to do research on and in project management.

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.

This book covers in detail the building blocks of Chinese capital markets at the financial instrument level, the analytical pricing term structure of those instruments, the macro and industry economic framework and progress of the liberalization processes at work in the respective markets, the interaction of various participants in the markets, their trading and investment objectives and rationales, some of the most frequently applied trading and investment strategies, and risk management techniques.

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

In this book, Christian Hurlimann examines valuation methods and their application in the context of managerial finance within renewable energy investments.

The application of a novel correlation coefficient of linguistic intuitionistic fuzzy sets to medical diagnosis problems provides the topic for Strategic Fuzzy Extensions and Decision-making Techniques.

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.

When it comes to managing cybersecurity in an organization, most tussle with basic foundational components.

An introductory guide to finance and the financial markets, designed to help professionals and students understand the complex finance industry.

The Environmental Management Revision Guide: For the NEBOSH Certificate in Environmental Management is the perfect revision aid for students preparing to take their NEBOSH Certificate in Environmental Management.

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

Most successful organizations recognize Maintenance Parts and Procurement as a critical success factor to Asset Management Excellence and their fundamental supply chain value proposition.

Human and Ecological Risk Assessment: Theory and Practice assembles the expertise of more than fifty authorities from fifteen different fields, forming a comprehensive reference and textbook on risk assessment.

In response to the Global Financial Crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic, central banks have used all available instruments in their monetary policy tool-kit to avoid financial market disruptions and a collapse in real economic activities.

Introduces principles drawn from quantum theory to present a new framework for modeling human cognition and decision.

Aimed at practitioners who need to understand the current fixed income markets and learn the techniques necessary to master the fundamentals, this book provides a thorough but concise description of fixed income markets, looking at the business, products and structures and advanced modeling of interest rate instruments.

This important book offers unique insights into crime and its prevention in retailing.

Sustainable Production and Logistics: Modeling and AnalysisSubject Guide: Engineering - Industrial & ManufacturingThis book presents issues faced by planners of production and distribution operations in terms of smart manufacturing and sustainability, using efficient quantitative techniques in a variety of decision-making situations.

This book is in honor of Yasuhiko Takahara, a first-class researcher who has been active for some 50 years at the global level in systems research.

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

This edited book presents a significant and timely contribution to our understanding of a broad range of issues pertaining to COVID-19 and its relationship to occupational safety, health and well-being (OSHW) in the global construction industry.

This book describes how the rapid advancement in encryption and network computing gave birth to new tools and products that have influenced the local and global economy alike.

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.

A number of dramatic changes are currently reshaping infrastructure, a sector that investors and asset managers have traditionally considered to be a safe harbor in the field of alternative investments.

The third book in the Great Minds in Finance series examines the pricing of securities and the risk/reward trade off through the legends, contribution, and legacies of Jacob Marschak, William Sharpe, Fischer Black and Myron Scholes, and Robert Merton, influencing both theory and practice, answering the question 'how do we measure risk?

This book analyzes the verification of empirical asset pricing models when returns of securities are projected onto a set of presumed (or observed) factors.

This volume presents the proceedings of the 18th International Probabilistic Workshop (IPW), which was held in Guimaraes, Portugal in May 2021.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Risk Management is about using AI to manage risk in the corporate environment.

Natural disasters, instability in the finance and banking sector, widespread social protests, and other crisis situations have increasingly become the focus of public attention.

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

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

Human Fatigue Risk Management: Improving Safety in the Chemical Processing Industry teaches users everything they need to know to mitigate the risk of fatigued workers in a plant or refinery.

Dieses Buch zeigt zum einen die aktuellen wissenschaftlichen Entwicklungen der „Risk Science“ auf und überträgt sie auf Finanzinstitute.

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

This volume provides practical solutions and introduces recent theoretical developments in risk management, pricing of credit derivatives, quantification of volatility and copula modeling.

This book traces the development and analyses the performance of life insurance industry in India, since inception of this sector, using different business indicators over the years.