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Coping with Financial Fragility and Systemic Risk


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1995 | 300 Pages | ISBN: 1441951555 | PDF | 9 MB
Coping with Financial Fragility and Systemic Risk identifies and discusses the sources of perceived fragility in financial institutions and markets and its potential consequences throughout the economy. It then examines private sector solutions for dealing with systemic risk and mitigating the consequences. Finally, the book examines regulatory solutions to these problems.

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Strategic Risk A State-Defined Approach


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1996 | 218 Pages | ISBN: 1461285623 | PDF | 16 MB
Strategic Risk examines a fundamental issue in the field of strategic management and organizations: how to study changes in the competitive outcomes of firms. Collins and Ruefli develop the concept of ordinal risk and extend this concept and its associated measures to the more general framework of state-defined systems. The book makes the state-defined risk methodology more accessible to strategic management researchers, and to social scientists in general. The need for quantitative frameworks with which to analyze the dynamics of strategic management has been apparent for some time. The state-defined risk methodology has the advantage of being based on a common usage definition of risk, and is also based on a mathematically well-behaved function. It permits investigation of the chance of gain while yielding a measure of environmental uncertainty. Finally, the development is general and permits applications employing a variety of performance dimensions over a range of entities in a diversity of contexts. The authors demonstrate the practicability and reliability of this approach by applying the model to mutual funds, large mining and manufacturing firms, and public firms on an industry by industry basis.

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Risk Management in Volatile Financial Markets


Free Download Risk Management in Volatile Financial Markets By Markus Lusser (auth.), Franco Bruni, Donald E. Fair, Richard O’Brien (eds.)
1996 | 371 Pages | ISBN: 1461285429 | PDF | 14 MB
intense competition on banks and other financial institutions, as a period of oligopoly ends: more rather than less innovation is needed to help share undi versifiable risks, with more attention to correlations between different risks. Charles Goodhart of the London School of Economics (LSE), while ques tioning the idea that volatility has increased, concludes that structural changes have made regulation more problematic and calls for improved information availability on derivatives transactions. In a thirteen country case study of the bond market turbulence of 1994, Bo rio and McCauley of the BIS pin the primary causes of the market decline on the market’s own dynamics rather than on variations in market participants’ apprehensions about economic fundamentals. Colm Kearney of the Univer sity of Western Sydney, after a six country study of volatility in economic and financial variables, concludes that more international collaboration in man aging financial volatility (other than in foreign exchange markets) is needed in Europe. Finally, Stokman and Vlaar of the Dutch central bank investigate the empirical evidence for the interaction between volatility and international transactions in real and financial assets for the Netherlands, concluding that such influence depends on the chosen volatility measure. The authors sug gest that there are no strong arguments for international restrictions to reduce volatility. INSTITUTIONAL ISSUES AND PRACTICES The six papers in Part C focus on what market participants are doing to manage risk.

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Managing High-Stakes Risk Toward a New Economics for Survival


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English | ISBN: 0230238270 | 2009 | 171 pages | EPUB | 429 KB
The threat we face from high-stakes risk has never been higher. These challenges include environmental pollution, fragile financial systems and the threat of widespread geopolitical violence. This book suggests that a return to natural risk levels – those in accordance with naturally occurring background levels – is both desirable and achievable.

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PerfectXL Risk Finder 1.2.3


Free Download PerfectXL Risk Finder 1.2.3 | 133.3 Mb
The best way to prevent Excel blunders. The world runs on Excel and the need to trust spreadsheets is greater than ever. Detect mistakes and identify risks with PerfectXL Risk Finder.

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Earthquake and Disaster Risk Decade Retrospective of the Wenchuan Earthquake (EPUB)


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English | EPUB | 2019 | 259 Pages | ISBN : 9811380147 | 96.8 MB
This book presents review papers and research articles focusing on the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake in Sichuan, China, discussing cross-disciplinary and multiple thematic aspects of modern seismological, geophysical, geological and stochastic methodology and technology. Resulting from international and regional earthquake research and disaster mitigation collaborations, and written by international authors from multiple institutions and disciplines, it describes methods and techniques in earthquake science based on investigations of the Wenchuan earthquake. It also includes extensive reference lists to aid further research.

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