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Author : Miriam Adeney
Publisher : Regent College Publishing
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1987-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1573832065
Author : Clodagh Finn
Publisher : Gill & Macmillan Ltd
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780717175604
Clodagh Finn has travelled throughout Europe to piece together the story of this remarkable, unknown Irish woman, meeting many of those children Mary Elmes saved. Here, in a book packed with courage, heroism, adventure and tragedy, her story is finally remembered. The children called her 'Miss Mary', and they remember her kindness still. She gave them food and shelter and later risked her life to help them escape the convoys bound for Auschwitz. Turning her back on a brilliant academic career, Mary Elmes ventured into a war zone to help children in the Spanish Civil War. In 1939, she fled Franco's forces but continued to work with refugees in France when the Second World War broke out. In 1942, when it became evident that Jews were being deported to their deaths, she smuggled children to safety in the boot of her car. She was arrested and imprisoned by the Gestapo, but went straight back to work after her release. When the war was over, Mary married and settled down, never speaking about what she had done. Her story was forgotten. In A Time to Risk All her remarkable story is finally remembered as it should be. 'A compelling portrait of an unsung Irish heroine of two wars' Madeleine Keane, Literary Editor, Sunday Independent 'Brings to light the life of Mary Elmes, showing a remarkable, independent and courageous woman whose compassion knew no borders.' Yvonne Altman O'Connor, Culture and Education Director, Irish Jewish Museum
Author : Christian Gollier
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0262572249
Updates and advances the theory of expected utility as applied to risk analysis and financial decision making.
Author : Irene Aldridge,Steven Krawciw
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781119318965
Risk management solutions for today's high-speed investing environment Real-Time Risk is the first book to show regular, institutional, and quantitative investors how to navigate intraday threats and stay on-course. The FinTech revolution has brought massive changes to the way investing is done. Trading happens in microsecond time frames, and while risks are emerging faster and in greater volume than ever before, traditional risk management approaches are too slow to be relevant. This book describes market microstructure and modern risks, and presents a new way of thinking about risk management in today's high-speed world. Accessible, straightforward explanations shed light on little-understood topics, and expert guidance helps investors protect themselves from new threats. The discussion dissects FinTech innovation to highlight the ongoing disruption, and to establish a toolkit of approaches for analyzing flash crashes, aggressive high frequency trading, and other specific aspects of the market. Today's investors face an environment in which computers and infrastructure merge, regulations allow dozens of exchanges to coexist, and globalized business facilitates round-the-clock deals. This book shows you how to navigate today's investing environment safely and profitably, with the latest in risk-management thinking. Discover risk management that works within micro-second trading Understand the nature and impact of real-time risk, and how to protect yourself Learn why flash crashes happen, and how to mitigate damage in advance Examine the FinTech disruption to established business models and practices When technology collided with investing, the boom created stratospheric amounts of data that allows us to plumb untapped depths and discover solutions that were unimaginable 20 years ago. Real-Time Risk describes these solutions, and provides practical guidance for today's savvy investor.
Author : James K. Glassman
Publisher : Crown Currency
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2011-02-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780307591272
How can you construct a financial investment strategy to protect yourself … yet still get the growth to ensure a solid financial future and comfortable retirement during these turbulent times? By building an investing safety net that gives you the gains needed for growth – though more modest than those of past years – but protection against the downside. So when turbulence strikes again – and it will – you won’t re-live the financial nightmares of recent years when portfolios and 401Ks were devastated. Jim Glassman provides the specifics you need for shrewd asset allocation, specifically: Reduce stock ownership. For those stocks you do own, ensure they meet one of these criteria: pay dividends; are low-priced and from industries of the future; or companies based in aspiring nations such as India, Brazil and China. Make a substantial investment in bonds, especially US Treasury TIPS bonds and corporate bonds Hedge against decline by owning a bear fund that shorts the US economy. Own funds based on other currencies, thus protecting yourself against the potential declining value of the US dollar. And consider derivatives. Yes, derivatives! Specific stock, bond and fund recommendations and ample portfolios then provide the starter ideas for properly balancing a portfolio. And the 5 principles and 18 specific rules of “the new rule book” help keep “animal spirits” in check when fads and news flashes provide the temptation to make rash investing decisions that will be quickly regretted.
Author : Mark Crane,Michael C. Newman,Peter F. Chapman,John S. Fenlon
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-19
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9781420032284
How can environmental regulators use information on 48-hour toxicity tests to predict the effects of a few minutes of pollution? Or, at the other extreme, what is the relevance of 96-hour toxicity data for organisms that may have been exposed to a pollutant for six months or more? Time to event methods are the key to answering these types of questi
Author : Xiaowei Ding
Publisher : Stanford University
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:kd751vr2857
Credit risk pervades all nancial transactions. The credit crisis has indicated the need for quantitative models for valuation, hedging, rating, risk management and regulatory monitoring of credit risk. A credit investor such as a bank granting loans to rms or an asset manager buying corporate bonds is exposed to correlated default risk. A portfolio credit derivative is a nancial security that allows the investor to transfer this risk to the credit market. In the rst part of this thesis, we study the valuation and risk analysis of portfolio derivatives. To capture the complex economic phenomena that drive the pricing of these securities, we introduce a time-changed birth process as a probabilistic model of correlated event timing. The self-exciting property of a time-changed birth process captures the feedback from events that is often observed in credit markets. The stochastic variation of arrival rates between events captures the exposure of rms to common economic risk factors. We derive a closed-form expression for the distribution of a time-changed birth process, and develop analytically tractable pricing relations for a range of portfolio derivatives valuation problems. We illustrate our results by calibrating a tranche forward and option pricer to market rates of index and tranche swaps. A loss point process model such as a time-changed birth process is speci ed without reference to the portfolio constituents. It is silent about the portfolio constituent risks, and cannot be used to address applications that are based on the relationship between portfolio and component risks, for example constituent risk hedging. The second part of this thesis develops a method that extends the reach of these models to the constituents. We use random thinning to decompose the portfolio intensity into the sum of the constituent intensities. We show that a thinning process, which allocates the portfolio intensity to constituents, uniquely exists and is a probabilistic model for the next-to-default. We derive a formula for the constituent default probability in terms of the thinning process and the portfolio intensity, and develop a semi-analytical transform approach to evaluate it. The formula leads to a calibration scheme for the thinning processes, and an estimation scheme for constituent hedge sensitivities. An empirical analysis for September 2008 shows that the constituent hedges generated by our method outperform the hedges prescribed by the Gaussian copula model, which is widely used in practice.
Author : Irene Aldridge,Steven Krawciw
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781119319047
Risk management solutions for today's high-speed investing environment Real-Time Risk is the first book to show regular, institutional, and quantitative investors how to navigate intraday threats and stay on-course. The FinTech revolution has brought massive changes to the way investing is done. Trading happens in microsecond time frames, and while risks are emerging faster and in greater volume than ever before, traditional risk management approaches are too slow to be relevant. This book describes market microstructure and modern risks, and presents a new way of thinking about risk management in today's high-speed world. Accessible, straightforward explanations shed light on little-understood topics, and expert guidance helps investors protect themselves from new threats. The discussion dissects FinTech innovation to highlight the ongoing disruption, and to establish a toolkit of approaches for analyzing flash crashes, aggressive high frequency trading, and other specific aspects of the market. Today's investors face an environment in which computers and infrastructure merge, regulations allow dozens of exchanges to coexist, and globalized business facilitates round-the-clock deals. This book shows you how to navigate today's investing environment safely and profitably, with the latest in risk-management thinking. Discover risk management that works within micro-second trading Understand the nature and impact of real-time risk, and how to protect yourself Learn why flash crashes happen, and how to mitigate damage in advance Examine the FinTech disruption to established business models and practices When technology collided with investing, the boom created stratospheric amounts of data that allows us to plumb untapped depths and discover solutions that were unimaginable 20 years ago. Real-Time Risk describes these solutions, and provides practical guidance for today's savvy investor.
Author : Thorsten Hens,Marc Oliver Rieger,Mei Wang
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 573 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789811221965
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the emerging field of cultural finance. It summarizes research results of cultural differences in financial decision making and financial markets. Many of the results have been published in leading academic journals over the last ten years but some are presented here for the first time. The book is based on an international survey on risk and time preferences — the INTRA study, conducted in 53 countries worldwide. Applications to financial markets include the equity premium puzzle, the value premium, dividend payout policies and asset allocations.
Author : Robert C. Lind,Kenneth J. Arrow,Gordon R. Corey,Partha Dasgupta,Amartya K. Sen,Thomas Stauffer,Joseph E. Stiglitz,J.A. Stockfisch
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135985189
This is a collection of theoretical papers, including contributions by Partha Dasgupta and three Nobel prize-winning economists: Kenneth Arrow, Amartya Sen, and Joseph Stiglitz. Originally published in 1982.
Author : Jason Jaggard
Publisher : WaterBrook
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780307730626
Develop the Art of Self-Challenge Tired of dreaming about changing your life? Ready to change it? You came to the right place. Jason Jaggard has developed a simple, direct way to practice the art of self-challenge. It requires a willingness to take healthy risks and is energized by the involvement of a small group of fellow risk-takers. Here are just a few of the Spark insights that lead to lasting change: · More resources are available to you than you realize. · Living a changed life works best when a few friends get involved. · When you relearn what “good” is, you experience more goodness in your life. · Taking a healthy risk is always worth it, even if you fail. When you practice the art of self-challenge, you notice that your life and the world around you start changing for the better. It involves doing the one thing that only you can do: take responsibility for your life. So go ahead and take your first risk: open this book and start reading.
Author : Daniel C. Yeomans
Publisher : Dog Ear Publishing
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-21
Category : Study Aids
ISBN : 9781457551383
In business, either you can manage risk, or risk will manage you. The key to successful risk management is use a tested, real-world process to manage risks. We share this process, tools, techniques, templates, and more. And along the way, we help you prepare for the PMI-RMP certification exam. This second edition is updated with new information from the PMBOK, including a 150-question self-test, useful activities, and a comprehensive glossary. You can count on this book to be the primary source you need to pass the PMI-RMP® exam the first time. If you aren’t applying for formal PMI certification, this book serves as a great reference to improve your overall Project Risk Management skills. Whether you’re an experienced project manager or someone leading their first work team, Passing the Risk Management Professional (PMI-RMP)® Certification Exam the First Time! gives you the practical tools, insights, and advice to manage risks for your next project.
Author : Dan Gardner
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2009-02-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781551992105
In the tradition of Malcolm Gladwell, Gardner explores a new way of thinking about the decisions we make. We are the safest and healthiest human beings who ever lived, and yet irrational fear is growing, with deadly consequences — such as the 1,595 Americans killed when they made the mistake of switching from planes to cars after September 11. In part, this irrationality is caused by those — politicians, activists, and the media — who promote fear for their own gain. Culture also matters. But a more fundamental cause is human psychology. Working with risk science pioneer Paul Slovic, author Dan Gardner sets out to explain in a compulsively readable fashion just what that statement above means as to how we make decisions and run our lives. We learn that the brain has not one but two systems to analyze risk. One is primitive, unconscious, and intuitive. The other is conscious and rational. The two systems often agree, but occasionally they come to very different conclusions. When that happens, we can find ourselves worrying about what the statistics tell us is a trivial threat — terrorism, child abduction, cancer caused by chemical pollution — or shrugging off serious risks like obesity and smoking. Gladwell told us about “the black box” of our brains; Gardner takes us inside, helping us to understand how to deconstruct the information we’re bombarded with and respond more logically and adaptively to our world. Risk is cutting-edge reading.
Author : Miriam Adeney
Publisher : Regent College Pub.
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Christian women
ISBN : 1553610113
Author : S Tesfamariam,K Goda
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 912 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780857098986
Earthquakes represent a major risk to buildings, bridges and other civil infrastructure systems, causing catastrophic loss to modern society. Handbook of seismic risk analysis and management of civil infrastructure systems reviews the state of the art in the seismic risk analysis and management of civil infrastructure systems. Part one reviews research in the quantification of uncertainties in ground motion and seismic hazard assessment. Part twi discusses methodologies in seismic risk analysis and management, whilst parts three and four cover the application of seismic risk assessment to buildings, bridges, pipelines and other civil infrastructure systems. Part five also discusses methods for quantifying dependency between different infrastructure systems. The final part of the book considers ways of assessing financial and other losses from earthquake damage as well as setting insurance rates. Handbook of seismic risk analysis and management of civil infrastructure systems is an invaluable guide for professionals requiring understanding of the impact of earthquakes on buildings and lifelines, and the seismic risk assessment and management of buildings, bridges and transportation. It also provides a comprehensive overview of seismic risk analysis for researchers and engineers within these fields. This important handbook reviews the wealth of recent research in the area of seismic hazard analysis in modern earthquake design code provisions and practices Examines research into the analysis of ground motion and seismic hazard assessment, seismic risk hazard methodologies Addresses the assessment of seismic risks to buildings, bridges, water supply systems and other aspects of civil infrastructure