Insurance category: 1053 books
Market Timing and Moving Averages
An Empirical Analysis of Performance in Asset Allocation
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
There is a prevailing view among researchers and practitioners that abnormal risk-adjusted returns are an anomaly of financial market inefficiency. This outlook is misleading, since such returns only shed light on the imperfect models commonly used to measure and benchmark investment performance....
Flood Hazards and Health
Responding to Present and Future Risks
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Flood hazards and the risks they present to human health are an increasing concern across the globe, in terms of lives, well-being and livelihoods, and the public resources needed to plan for, and deal with, the health impacts. This book is the first detailed assessment and discussion of the global...
Unsecured Ladders
Meeting the Challenge of the Unexpected
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2009
The book addresses the vital issue of how business leaders can prepare themselves to deal with the impact of unexpected events. It raises key questions for leaders to address if they are to avoid being distracted by crisis and remain in touch with a wider context that is subject to constant uncertainty and change.
Scenario Thinking
Practical Approaches to the Future
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2011
Presents new methods in scenario thinking, based on a mix of high-level research and top-level consultancy experience. The authors describe the logical bases of a range of scenario methods and provide detailed 'road maps' on how to implement them - together with practical examples of their application.
Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling
Recent Advances in Banking and Finance
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2018
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. In terms of empirical analysis techniques, Banking and Finance is a conservative discipline. As such,...
Risk-Based Performance Management
Integrating Strategy and Risk Management
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
Pulling together into a single framework the two separate disciplines of strategy management and risk management, this book provides a practical guide for organizations to shape and execute sustainable strategies with full understanding of how much risk they are willing to accept in pursuit of strategic goals.
Uncertainty in Economics
A New Approach
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2017
In this book the author develops a new approach to uncertainty in economics, which calls for a fundamental change in the methodology of economics. It provides a comprehensive overview and critical appraisal of the economic theory of uncertainty and shows that uncertainty was originally conceptualized...
Your Guide to Workplace Violence
When Emotions Turn Destructive
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Workplace violence is more complicated than physical assault, ranging from small threats to large, catastrophic incidents. It covers any act or behavior where another person is abused, threatened, intimidated or assaulted in his or her place of employment. In Your Guide to Workplace Violence: When...
Managing Uncertainty, Mitigating Risk
Tackling the Unknown in Financial Risk Assessment and Decision Making
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
Managing Uncertainty, Mitigating Risk proposes that financial risk management broaden its approach, maintaining quantification where possible, but incorporating uncertainty. The author shows that by using broad quantification techniques, and using reason as the guiding principle, practitioners can see a more holistic and complete picture.
Fault Detection, Supervision and Safety of Technical Processes 2006
A Proceedings Volume from the 6th IFAC Symposium on Fault Detection, Supervision and Safety of Technical Processes
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2007
The safe and reliable operation of technical systems is of great significance for the protection of human life and health, the environment, and of the vested economic value. The correct functioning of those systems has a profound impact also on production cost and product quality. The early detection...
by Susan L. Cutter
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
From Hurricane Katrina and the south Asian tsunami to human-induced atrocities, terrorist attacks and the looming effects of climate change, the world is assailed by both natural and unnatural hazards and disasters. These expose not only human vulnerability - particularly that of the poorest, who...
Managing Risks in the European Periphery Debt Crisis
Lessons from the Trade-off between Economics, Politics and the Financial Markets
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2014
The European Periphery Debt Crisis (EPDC) has its roots in the structural characteristics of the individual economies affected. This book offers a full diagnosis of the EPDC, its association to the national and international structural characteristics and a full analysis from a risk management point of view of the available policy options.
FX Barrier Options
A Comprehensive Guide for Industry Quants
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Barrier options are a class of highly path-dependent exotic options which present particular challenges to practitioners in all areas of the financial industry. They are traded heavily as stand-alone contracts in the Foreign Exchange (FX) options market, their trading volume being second only to that...
by Catherine Althaus
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Calculating Political Risk is rich and illuminating, and much more than a political science treatise. Althaus draws on diverse literature, extensive interviews and intriguing case studies to offer interdisciplinary, practical and nuanced insight. This book provides new perspectives and more precise...