The Price Of Indifference

Author : Arthur C. Helton
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2002-03-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780191037528

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The Price of Indifference by Arthur C. Helton Pdf

Refugee policy has failed frequently over the past decade, resulting in instability, terrible hardships and loss of life. This book is the first effort to review systematically the recent past and re-design policy to give fresh answers to old problems. Specific recommendations are made to re-conceive refugee policy to be more proactive and comprehensive as well as to re-organize how policy is formulated within and among governments. Refugee policy has not kept pace with new realities in international and humanitarian affairs. Recent policy failures have resulted in instability, terrible hardships, and massive loss of life. This book systematically analyzes refugee policy responses over the past decade, and calls for specific reforms to make policy more proactive and comprehensive. Refugee policy must be more than the administration of misery. Responses should be calculated to help prevent or mitigate future humanitarian catastrophes. More international cooperation is needed in advance of crises. Humanitarian structures within governments, notably the United States, as well as the wide variety of international institutions involved in humanitarian action must be re-oriented to cope with new challenges.

Author : René Carmona
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2009-01-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780691138831

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Indifference Pricing by René Carmona Pdf

This is the first book about the emerging field of utility indifference pricing for valuing derivatives in incomplete markets. René Carmona brings together a who's who of leading experts in the field to provide the definitive introduction for students, scholars, and researchers. Until recently, financial mathematicians and engineers developed pricing and hedging procedures that assumed complete markets. But markets are generally incomplete, and it may be impossible to hedge against all sources of randomness. Indifference Pricing offers cutting-edge procedures developed under more realistic market assumptions. The book begins by introducing the concept of indifference pricing in the simplest possible models of discrete time and finite state spaces where duality theory can be exploited readily. It moves into a more technical discussion of utility indifference pricing for diffusion models, and then addresses problems of optimal design of derivatives by extending the indifference pricing paradigm beyond the realm of utility functions into the realm of dynamic risk measures. Focus then turns to the applications, including portfolio optimization, the pricing of defaultable securities, and weather and commodity derivatives. The book features original mathematical results and an extensive bibliography and indexes. In addition to the editor, the contributors are Pauline Barrieu, Tomasz R. Bielecki, Nicole El Karoui, Robert J. Elliott, Said Hamadène, Vicky Henderson, David Hobson, Aytac Ilhan, Monique Jeanblanc, Mattias Jonsson, Anis Matoussi, Marek Musiela, Ronnie Sircar, John van der Hoek, and Thaleia Zariphopoulou. The first book on utility indifference pricing Explains the fundamentals of indifference pricing, from simple models to the most technical ones Goes beyond utility functions to analyze optimal risk transfer and the theory of dynamic risk measures Covers non-Markovian and partially observed models and applications to portfolio optimization, defaultable securities, static and quadratic hedging, weather derivatives, and commodities Includes extensive bibliography and indexes Provides essential reading for PhD students, researchers, and professionals

Author : Srdjan Stojanovic
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2011-09-28
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780387714172

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Neutral and Indifference Portfolio Pricing, Hedging and Investing by Srdjan Stojanovic Pdf

This book is written for quantitative finance professionals, students, educators, and mathematically inclined individual investors. It is about some of the latest developments in pricing, hedging, and investing in incomplete markets. With regard to pricing, two frameworks are fully elaborated: neutral and indifference pricing. With regard to hedging, the most conservative and relaxed hedging formulas are derived. With regard to investing, the neutral pricing methodology is also considered as a tool for connecting market asset prices with optimal positions in such assets. Srdjan D. Stojanovic is Professor in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at University of Cincinnati (USA) and Professor in the Center for Financial Engineering at Suzhou University (China).

Author : Peter Stamm
Publisher : Other Press, LLC
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2020-01-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781590519806

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The Sweet Indifference of the World by Peter Stamm Pdf

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE SEASON BY VOGUE In this alluring, melancholic novel—Peter Stamm at his best—a writer haunted by his double blurs the line between past and present, fiction and reality, in his attempt to outrun the unknown. “Please come to Skogskyrkogården tomorrow at 2. I have a story I want to tell you.” Lena agrees to Christoph's out-of-the-blue request, though the two have never met. In Stockholm's Woodland Cemetery, he tells her his story, which is also somehow hers. Twenty years before, he loved a woman named Magdalena—an actress like Lena, with her looks, her personality, her past. Their breakup inspired him to write his first novel, about the time they were together, and in its scenes Lena recognizes the uncanny, intimate details of her own relationship with an aspiring writer, Chris. Is it possible that she and Chris are living the same lives as Magdalena and Christoph two decades apart? Are they headed towards the same scripted separation? Or, in the fever of writing, has Christoph lost track of what is real and what is imagined? In this subtle, kaleidoscopic tale, Peter Stamm exposes a fundamental human yearning: to beat life's mysteries by forcing answers on questions that have yet to be fully asked.

Author : Stephen Makin
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Atomism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105120948158

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Indifference Arguments by Stephen Makin Pdf

In this book Stephen Makin offers a striking new account of some intriguing but neglected arguments - indifference arguments - and of the presocratic atomism underpinned by indifference reasoning. Used by Parmenides, Democritus, Plato, Aristotle and Leibniz as well as some contemporary philosophers, indifference arguments start from claims about a balance of reasons or an absence of asymmetries. While some provide plausible support for surprisingly strong conclusions, others produce no conviction. Here, Makin offers an account of indifference arguments and provides answers to such philosophical questions as ′What makes a good piece of indifference reasoning?′, ′How do the arguments work?′, ′Do they involve claims about metaphysical commitments?′ The account that is presented of the Democritean atomic theory strongly emphasizes the continuity of atomism with earlier thought. A number of Zeno′s arguments are considered, and there is some discussion of other Eleatics. Indifference arguments in other ancient philosophers, such as Anaximander and Aristotle, also receive attention. The book will be of interest to all those concerned with ancient philosophy and philosophical logic.

Author : Charles E. Scott
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2007-05-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780253117038

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Living with Indifference by Charles E. Scott Pdf

Living with Indifference is about the dimension of life that is utterly neutral, without care, feeling, or personality. In this provocative work that is anything but indifferent, Charles E. Scott explores the ways people have spoken and thought about indifference. Exploring topics such as time, chance, beauty, imagination, violence, and virtue, Scott shows how affirming indifference can be beneficial, and how destructive consequences can occur when we deny it. Scott's preoccupation with indifference issues a demand for focused attention in connection with personal values, ethics, and beliefs. This elegantly argued book speaks to the positive value of diversity and a world that is open to human passion.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:475411662

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The Price of Indifference by Anonim Pdf

Author : Joseph Teller
Publisher : MIRA
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781460399705

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Depraved Indifference by Joseph Teller Pdf

An Audi sports car, speeding in the wrong lane, forces an oncoming van off the road. The van bursts into flames, killing all nine occupants…eight of them children. Criminal defense attorney Harrison J. Walker, known simply as Jaywalker, is trying to keep his nose clean while serving a three-year suspension. But when a woman seduces him into representing the "Audi Assassin," a man who also happens to be her husband, things get messy. Struggling with the moral issues surrounding this case, Jaywalker tries to stay focused on his goal—limiting the damage to his client by exposing the legal system's hypocrisy regarding drunk driving. But when he rounds a blind corner in the case, he collides with a truth that could turn his entire defense into disaster.

Author : Peter Berkowitz
Publisher : Hoover Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0817939636

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Never a Matter of Indifference by Peter Berkowitz Pdf

The contributors reveal how public policy in the United States has weakened the institutions of civil society that play a critical role in forming and sustaining the qualities of mind and character crucial to democratic self-government. The authors show what can be done, consistent with the principles of a free society, to establish a healthier relationship between public policy and character.

Author : Arthur C. Helton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Emigration and immigration
ISBN : OCLC:475411662

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The Price of Indifference by Arthur C. Helton Pdf

Author : Gary Indiana
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2020-01-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781635901085

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Depraved Indifference by Gary Indiana Pdf

The third of Gary Indiana's famed crime trilogy tells a story inspired by the virtuoso con artistry of mother-and-son criminals Sante and Kenneth Kimes. She collected future marks like lottery tickets. She operated by reflex. Any public room was a pristine harvest of human information. Not just business cards, phone numbers, fax numbers and the like, but weaknesses, quirks, character flaws, delusional ambitions, risky dreams, medical problems, shaky marriages. Everybody came equipped with a panel of invisible buttons.... If you had the right touch, if you knew how to press one button lightly and another button with a bit more force, you could make the emotional side of a person swing up and down as you wished. —from Depraved Indifference First published in 2001, Depraved Indifference is the third of Gary Indiana's famed crime trilogy now being reissued by Semiotext(e). Inspired by the virtuoso con artistry of mother-and-son criminals Sante and Kenneth Kimes, Depraved Indifference follows Evangeline Slote, a dead ringer for Elizabeth Taylor “so compulsive she grifts herself when she runs out of other people” through the circus of calamity that her compulsions invoke. Evangeline, or “Evelyn Carson, “Princess Shah Shah,” among other pseudonyms, accompanied by her alcoholic husband Warren and fanatically devoted son Devin, moves from Las Vegas to Hawaii to Nassau in a maelstrom of forgery and fraud that constantly threatens to come undone. When Warren dies, Evangeline and her son embark upon an ever more brazen series of grifts, frauds, and crimes. Thriving on chaos, a master of manipulation and seduction, Evangeline concocts the scheme to end all schemes—which may take a murder to complete. Reminiscent of Nathanael West's The Day of the Locust, Indiana's scathing, insightful prose is a mirror to the empty landscape of American culture.

Author : Michael D. Brown,Ted Schwarz
Publisher : Taylor Trade Publications
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2011-06-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781589794863

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Deadly Indifference by Michael D. Brown,Ted Schwarz Pdf

At last, former Under Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Brown—infamously praised by President George W. Bush for doing a "heckuva job" in the wake of Hurricane Katrina—tells his side of the response to one of the greatest natural disasters to occur in the United States. Without making excuses for anyone, least of all the President of the United States or himself, Brown describes in detail what ultimately turned out to be the largest federal response to a natural disaster in U.S. history.

Author : Rebecca Sjonger
Publisher : Deconstructing Powerful Speech
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-31
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0778781577

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Elie Weisel: The Perils of Indifference by Rebecca Sjonger Pdf

Elie Wiesel lost most of his family to the Nazi death camps of World War II. As a Holocaust survivor, he dedicated his life to ending injustice, suffering, and indifference. In this 1999 speech given at the White House, Wiesel makes the case for gratitude, passion, and �making a difference� in the world. His speech links being indifferent, or being a bystander to hate, to destroying humanity. Indifference harms all, because �in denying (people) their humanity we betray our own.�

Author : Michael Herzfeld
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000323122

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The Social Production of Indifference by Michael Herzfeld Pdf

In this fascinating book, Michael Herzfeld argues that 'modern' bureaucratically regulated societies are no more 'rational' or less 'symbolic' than the societies traditionally studied by anthropologists. Drawing primarily on the example of modern Greece and utilizing other European materials, he suggests that we cannot understand national bureaucracies divorced from local-level ideas about chance, personal character, social relationships and responsibility. He points out that both formal regulations and day-to-day bureaucratic practices rely heavily on the symbols and language of the moral boundaries between insiders and outsiders; a ready means of expressing prejudice and of justifying neglect. It therefore happens that societies with proud traditions of generous hospitality may paradoxically produce at the official level some of the most calculated indifference one can find anywhere.

Author : Moira Roth,Jonathan D. Katz
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Art
ISBN : 9057012510

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Difference/indifference by Moira Roth,Jonathan D. Katz Pdf

First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.