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Risk Analysis in Theory and Practice
ISBN: 9780121706210 / Angielski / Twarda / 247 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The objective of Risk Analysis in Theory and Practice is to present this analytical framework and to illustrate how it can be used in the investigation of economic decisions under risk. In a sense, the economics of risk is a difficult subject: it involves understanding human decisions in the absence of perfect information. How do we make decisions when we do not know some of events affecting us? The complexities of our uncertain world and of how humans obtain and process information make this difficult. In spite of these difficulties, much progress has been made. First, probability...
The objective of Risk Analysis in Theory and Practice is to present this analytical framework and to illustrate how it can be used in the inves...
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391,22 zł |
Organized Uncertainty: Designing a World of Risk Management
ISBN: 9780199253944 / Angielski / Twarda / 275 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since the mid-1990s risk management has undergone a dramatic expansion in its reach and significance, being transformed from an aspect of management control to become a benchmark of good governance for banks, hospitals, schools, charities and many other organizations. Numerous standards for risk management practice have been produced by a variety of transnational organizations. While these many designs and blueprints are accompanied by ideals of enterprise, value production, and good governance, it is argued that the rise of risk management has also coincided with an intensification of...
Since the mid-1990s risk management has undergone a dramatic expansion in its reach and significance, being transformed from an aspect of management c...
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537,60 zł |
Risk Management and Shareholders' Value in Banking: From Risk Measurement Models to Capital Allocation Policies
ISBN: 9780470029787 / Angielski / Twarda / 808 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book presents an integrated framework for risk measurement, capital management and value creation in banks. Moving from the measurement of the risks facing a bank, it defines criteria and rules to support a corporate policy aimed at maximizing shareholders' value.
Parts I - IV discuss different risk types (including interest rate, market, credit and operational risk) and how to assess the amount of capital they absorb by means of up-to-date, robust risk-measurement models. Part V surveys regulatory capital requirements: a special emphasis is given to the Basel II... This book presents an integrated framework for risk measurement, capital management and value creation in banks. Moving from the measurement of the ri...
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373,42 zł |
Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk
ISBN: 9780471295631 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A Business Week, New York Times Business, and USA Today Bestseller
"Ambitious and readable . . . an engaging introduction to the oddsmakers, whom Bernstein regards as true humanists helping to release mankind from the choke holds of superstition and fatalism." -The New York Times "An extraordinarily entertaining and informative book." -The Wall Street Journal "A lively panoramic book . . . Against the Gods sets up an ambitious premise and then delivers on it." -Business Week "Deserves to be, and surely will be, widely read." -The... A Business Week, New York Times Business, and USA Today Bestseller
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93,14 zł |
Acceptable Risk
ISBN: 9780521278928 / Angielski / Miękka / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The common denominator of a growing number of hard decisions facing modern societies is the need to determine, "How safe is safe enough?" Nuclear power, recombinant DNA, food additives, and the DC-10 are just a few of the products of technological progress that raise this question. The authors begin by defining acceptable-risk problems and analyzing why they are so difficult to resolve, considering such issues as uncertainty about their definition, lack of relevant facts, conflicting and conflicted social values, and disagreements between technical experts and the lay public. Drawing on their...
The common denominator of a growing number of hard decisions facing modern societies is the need to determine, "How safe is safe enough?" Nuclear powe...
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199,01 zł |
Life Death and Money
ISBN: 9780631209065 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Actuaries are experts in assessing risk, so it is not surprising that over the past few years they have become involved in many new areas of financial planning, including the appraisal of major capital projects.
In this collection of essays published to celebrate the Institute of Actuaries' 150th Anniversary, leading experts describe how actuarial concepts have contributed to many important social and financial developments, and how these ideas will continue to "make financial sense of the future." Even non-mathematicians will find this book useful in understanding how the... Actuaries are experts in assessing risk, so it is not surprising that over the past few years they have become involved in many new areas of financial...
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395,34 zł |
International Political Risk Management: Exploring New Frontiers
ISBN: 9780821348345 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Printed on Demand. Limited stock is held for this title. If you would like to order 30 copies or more please contact books@worldbank.org This work brings together the assessments and experiences of leading academics and practitioners from the international investor, lender and insurance communities. It examines the transformations in the political risk insurance market in the 1990s, resulting from changes in the broader insurance industry and from the rapid and complex expansion of foreign direct investment into emerging markets. It also analyzes some of the current supply and demand...
Printed on Demand. Limited stock is held for this title. If you would like to order 30 copies or more please contact books@worldbank.org This work bri...
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201,04 zł |
International Political Risk Management: The Brave New World
ISBN: 9780821356494 / Angielski / Miękka / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'International Political Risk Management, Volume 2: The Brave New World' is the latest in a series based on the MIGA-Georgetown University Symposium on International Political Risk Management. Volumes in this series offer leading-edge assessments of needs and capabilities in the international political risk insurance industry. These assessments come from 18 experts in the fields of international investment, finance, insurance, and academe. Contributors to this volume consider 'The Brave New World' of the political risk insurance industry in the wake of September 11, 2001, the Argentine...
'International Political Risk Management, Volume 2: The Brave New World' is the latest in a series based on the MIGA-Georgetown University Symposium o...
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142,51 zł |
International Political Risk Management: Looking to the Future
ISBN: 9780821361542 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'International Political Risk Management: Looking to the Future' is the third in a series of volumes based on the MIGA-Georgetown University Symposium in International Political Risk Management. Like its predecessors, this volume offers expert assessments of needs, trends, and challenges in the international political risk insurance industry. These assessments come from a dozen senior practitioners from the investor, financial, insurance, broker, and analytical communities. The volume leads off by examining the lessons that can be learned from recent investment losses, insurance claims, and...
'International Political Risk Management: Looking to the Future' is the third in a series of volumes based on the MIGA-Georgetown University Symposium...
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188,87 zł |
International Political Risk Management: Needs of the Present, Challenges for the Future
ISBN: 9780821370018 / Angielski / Miękka / 271 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume is the latest in a series based on the MIGA (Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency)-GeorgetownUniversity Symposium on International Political Risk Management, with contributions from experts from the international investment, finance, insurance, and legal fields. Highlights include a treatment of regulatory risk in emerging markets by three distinguished lawyers, a proposal for a new type of war risk insurance coverage, the examination of the risk management needs of the international power sector from both legal and user perspectives, and a discussion of the future of the...
This volume is the latest in a series based on the MIGA (Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency)-GeorgetownUniversity Symposium on International Pol...
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164,47 zł |
Review of Risk Mitigation Instruments for Infrastructure: Financing and Recent Trends and Development
ISBN: 9780821371008 / Angielski / Miękka / 72 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Although the importance of infrastructure sectors in achieving economic growth and poverty reduction is well established, raising debt and equity capital for infrastructure development and service provision has been a challenge for developing countries. Risk mitigation instruments facilitate the mobilization of commercial debt and equity capital by transferring risks that private financiers would not be willing to take to third-party official and private institutions that are capable of taking such risks. There has been increasing interest and discussion on risk mitigation instruments in the...
Although the importance of infrastructure sectors in achieving economic growth and poverty reduction is well established, raising debt and equity capi...
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97,59 zł |
Organizational Crisis Management : The Human Factor
ISBN: 9780849339622 / Angielski / Twarda / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Book Description Workplace crises extend far beyond large-scale events such as terrorism. Organizational Crisis Management: The Human Factor examines a variety of incidents, including those that are more likely to occur, including floods, storms, and layoffs. Focusing on understanding the human aspects of crisis management, how to maintain business activity during disruption, and the importance of leadership, this book presents a framework for assessing an organization's culture and its impact on social and emotional elements of the workplace. The author provides leads to greater...
Book Description Workplace crises extend far beyond large-scale events such as terrorism. Organizational Crisis Management: The Human Factor examines ...
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652,11 zł |
Complete Guide to Security and Privacy Metrics: Measuring Regulatory Compliance, Operational Resilience, and Roi
ISBN: 9780849354021 / Angielski / Twarda / 848 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Addressing measuring compliance with current legislation, regulations, and standards in the US, EC, and Canada including Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA, and the Data Protection Act-UK, this work defines more than 900 ready-to-use metrics that measure compliance, resiliency, and return on investment.
Addressing measuring compliance with current legislation, regulations, and standards in the US, EC, and Canada including Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA, and th...
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678,21 zł |
Risk Management and Insurance: Perspectives in a Global Economy
ISBN: 9781405125413 / Angielski / Twarda / 768 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Skipper & Kwon's Risk Management & Insurance: Perspectives in a Global Economy provides an in-depth understanding of international risk management and insurance, their dynamics, and the economic, social, political, and regulatory environments surrounding global risk and insurance markets.
Skipper & Kwon's Risk Management & Insurance: Perspectives in a Global Economy provides an in-depth understanding of international risk managem...
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233,39 zł |
Intellectual Property: The Lifeblood of Your Company
ISBN: 9781843341352 / Angielski / Miękka / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Written by two intellectual property (IP) lawyers, experienced in contentious and non-contentious matters, Intellectual Property deals with different types of intellectual property protection and how to apply for them. It also covers how to cope with the infringement of one's intellectual property or allegations that it infringes someone else's intellectual property. Finally, the book advises on how best to exploit one's intellectual property rights and the sort of commercial agreements that will be entered into as a result. Aimed at business people rather than lawyers. Intellectual Property...
Written by two intellectual property (IP) lawyers, experienced in contentious and non-contentious matters, Intellectual Property deals with different ...
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323,40 zł |
The Possibility of Something Happening
ISBN: 9781844010028 / Angielski / Miękka / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Do you want to know how Lloyd's works from the inside? Here, in easy terms, is a history and working description of that august institution, written by a city luminary who is an experienced broker and former Underwriting Member at Lloyd's. You'll find explained the important distinction between agents and brokers, marine and non-marine, insurance and re-insurance, slips and lines. The magical word 'Name' is defined, along with the equally important phrase 'Stop Loss' and that troublesome concept, 'unlimited liability'. Some of us might agree with the author that when Lloyd's moved to its...
Do you want to know how Lloyd's works from the inside? Here, in easy terms, is a history and working description of that august institution, written b...
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102,20 zł |
Climate Change and Insurance: Disaster Risk Financing in Developing Countries
ISBN: 9781844074839 / Angielski / Twarda / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Climate change brings about a new set of major economic risks arising from changing weather patterns, extreme weather events and rising sea levels. Most at risk are developing countries who, despite considerable post-disaster donor aid, have been bearing the major brunt of disaster-related losses. One adaptation solution that is rapidly gaining the support of countries and international donors is a risk transfer to the global reinsurance and capital markets. This volume, a special issue of the journal Climate Policy, explores the role that insurance-based mechanisms can play in helping...
Climate change brings about a new set of major economic risks arising from changing weather patterns, extreme weather events and rising sea levels. Mo...
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704,29 zł |
Foreign Exchange Risk Management- Which hedging techniques can be used by a mid-size company
ISBN: 9783836412612 / Angielski / Miękka / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since 1973 the exchange rates of major currencies have been permitted to
float freely against one another. This, along with an increase in the volume of the world trade, has escalated foreign currency risk. Exchange rate movements have a significant impact on companies engaged in international trade. In contrast to big multinational companies, that have a broad range of tools available to reduce their foreign currency exposure, middle-sized companies have only limited possibilities to hedge their foreign exchange rate risk. The aim of the paper is to examine all available hedging techniques... Since 1973 the exchange rates of major currencies have been permitted to
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257,65 zł |
Intelligent and Other Computational Techniques in Insurance: Theory and Applications
ISBN: 9789812387189 / Angielski / Twarda / 688 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book presents recent advances in the theory and implementation of intelligent and other computational techniques in the insurance industry.
This book presents recent advances in the theory and implementation of intelligent and other computational techniques in the insurance industry.
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1090,34 zł |
Actuarial Science: Theory and Methodology
ISBN: 9789812565051 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since actuarial education was introduced into China in the 1980s, Chinese scholars have paid greater attention to the theoretical research of actuarial science. Professors and industry experts from well-known universities in China recently worked together on the project "Insurance Information Processing and Actuarial Mathematics Theory and Methodology," which was supported by the Chinese government. Summarizing what they achieved, this volume provides a study of some basic problems of actuarial science, including risk models, risk evaluation and analysis, and premium principles. The...
Since actuarial education was introduced into China in the 1980s, Chinese scholars have paid greater attention to the theoretical research of actuaria...
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605,17 zł |