Security Analysis and Portfolio Management

This book is a simple and concise text on the subject of security analysis and portfolio management. It is targeted towards those who do not have prior background in finance, and hence the text veers away from rather complicated formulations and discussions. The course ‘Security Analysis and Portfolio Management’ is usually taught as an elective for students specialising in financial manage…

Climate Risk and Business

Addressing the urgency of radical decarbonization as a mitigative response to climate risk, this book explores how business can respond to the challenges of climate risk, through various transformational processes. Those processes involve cognitive transformations, organizational changes, climate risk integration into risk management practices, shifts in corporate reporting and disclosure as we…

Techniques of Decision Making, Uncertain Reasoning and Regression Analysis Un…

This book mainly introduces some techniques of decision-making, uncertain reasoning and regression analysis under the hesitant fuzzy environment and expands the applications of hesitant fuzzy sets in solving practical problems. The book pursues three major objectives: (1) to introduce some techniques about decision-making, uncertain reasoning and regression analysis under the hesitant fuzzy env…

Excess Capacity and Difficulty of Exit

This book provides cases and analyses of causes and consequences of difficulty in downsizing and exiting in the electronics industry during the “two lost decades” in Japan. Because of excess capacity in the industry, many electronics companies have been required for downsizing and exit since the 1990s. Exploiting corporate financial and segment datasets, it shows empirical evidence of misal…

Financial Risk Management and Modeling

Risk is the main source of uncertainty for investors, debtholders, corporate managers and other stakeholders. For all these actors, it is vital to focus on identifying and managing risk before making decisions. The success of their businesses depends on the relevance of their decisions and consequently, on their ability to manage and deal with the different types of risk. Accordingly, the main …

Geopolitical Risk, Sustainability and “Cross-Border Spillovers” in Emergi…

Economic recessions, social networks, environmental damage in several large countries (eg. China, Brazil, U.S.), the Global Financial Crisis of 2007-2015 and cross-border spillovers continue to significantly affect economic systems, financial markets, social structures and environmental compliance worldwide. These have rekindled economists’ and policy-makers’ interest in the relationships a…

RISK MANAGEMENT STUDENT AFFAIRS: Foundations for Safety and Success

Edition

-

ISBN/ISSN

978-1-118-10091-2

Collation

xi, 264 p. : ill. ; 23 cm

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-

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658 Mil r

The Evolution of Yield Management in the Airline Industry

This book chronicles airline revenue management from its early origins to the last frontier. Since its inception revenue management has now become an integral part of the airline business process for competitive advantage. The field has progressed from inventory control of the base fare, to managing bundles of base fare and air ancillaries, to the precise inventory control at the individual sea…

Enterprise Risk Management

This textbook demonstrates how Enterprise Risk Management creates value in strategic- and decision-making-processes. The author introduces modern approaches to balancing risk and reward based on many examples of medium-sized and large companies from different industries. Since traditional risk management in practice is often an independent stand-alone process with no impact on decision-making p…

Applying Particle Swarm Optimization

This book explains the theoretical structure of particle swarm optimization (PSO) and focuses on the application of PSO to portfolio optimization problems. The general goal of portfolio optimization is to find a solution that provides the highest expected return at each level of portfolio risk. According to H. Markowitz’s portfolio selection theory, as new assets are added to an investment po…

Analysing Intraday Implied Volatility for Pricing Currency Options

This book focuses on the impact of high-frequency data in forecasting market volatility and options price. New technologies have created opportunities to obtain better, faster, and more efficient datasets to explore financial market phenomena at the most acceptable data levels. It provides reliable intraday data supporting financial investment decisions across different assets classes and instr…

Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis for Risk Assessment and Management

This book provides in-depth guidance on how to use multi-criteria decision analysis methods for risk assessment and risk management. The frontiers of engineering operations management methods for identifying the risks, investigating their roles, analyzing the complex cause-effect relationships, and proposing countermeasures for risk mitigation are presented in this book. There is a total of…

Violence, Victimisation and Young People

This edited collection focuses on different aspects of everyday violence, harassment and threats in schools. It presents a number of in-depth studies of everyday life in schools and uses examples and case studies from different countries to fuel a discussion on national differences and similarities. The book discusses a broad range of concepts, findings and issues, under the umbrella of three m…

Protocols for High-Risk Pregnancies, Fifth Edition

Edition

5

ISBN/ISSN

978-1-4051-9650-5

Collation

xviii, 661p.;ill.; 25cm

Series Title

-

Call Number

618.3 Pro p

Error Reduction in Health Care : A Systems Approach to Improving Patient Safety

Edition

2

ISBN/ISSN

978-0-470-50240-2

Collation

xxiii, 392 p.; 24 cm.

Series Title

-

Call Number

362.1 Spa e

Building Safer Healthcare Systems

This book offers a new, practical approach to healthcare reform. Departing from the priorities applied in traditional approaches, it instead assesses – both theoretically and practically – the successful lessons learned in other safety-critical industries, and applies them to healthcare settings. The authors focus on the importance of human factors and performance measures to establish proa…

NON-CHEMICAL WEED MANAGEMENT: Principles, Concepts and Technology

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ISBN/ISSN

978-1-84593-290-9

Collation

ix, 239 p. : ill. ; 23 cm

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Call Number

632.5 Upa n

Ecological Risk Assessment

Edition

-

ISBN/ISSN

1-56670-634-4

Collation

-

Series Title

-

Call Number

333.951 4 Eco e

RISK INTELLIGENCE: LEARNING TO MANAGE WHAT WE DON'T KNOW

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ISBN/ISSN

1-59139-954-8

Collation

xi, 309 p,; 24 cm

Series Title

-

Call Number

658.155 Apg r

Introduction to Risk Management and Insurance, Ninth Edition

Edition

9

ISBN/ISSN

0-13-603872-7

Collation

xxxi, 560 p. ; 26 cm

Series Title

-

Call Number

368 Dor i

INTRODUCTION TO RISK MANAGEMENT AND INSURANCE, Fourth Edition

Edition

4th

ISBN/ISSN

0-13-497165-5

Collation

xiv, 622 p. : 25 cm

Series Title

-

Call Number

368 Dor i

CASE FILES®; HIGH- RISK OBSTETRICS

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-

ISBN/ISSN

978-007-160543-4

Collation

xvi, 511p.; ill.; 23cm

Series Title

-

Call Number

618.2 Toy c

Diagnosis and Risk Prediction of PERIODONTAL DISEASES

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-

ISBN/ISSN

0-86715-363-6

Collation

viii, 463 hlm.; ill.; 29cm

Series Title

-

Call Number

617.632 Axe d

ENTERPRISE RISK MANAGEMENT, 2nd Edition

Edition

2nd

ISBN/ISSN

978-981-4632-76-8

Collation

-

Series Title

-

Call Number

658 Ols e

GUIDLINERS FOR Chemical Process Quantitative Risk Analysis

Edition

-

ISBN/ISSN

0-8169-0402-2

Collation

xxxv, 585 p. : ill. ; 25 cm

Series Title

-

Call Number

660.2804 Gui g

SYNER-G: Systemic Seismic Vulnerability and Risk Assessment of Complex Urban,…

SYNER-G, a multidisciplinary effort funded by the European Union, allowed the development of an innovative methodological framework for the assessment of physical as well as socio-economic seismic vulnerability and risk at urban and regional level. The results of SYNER-G are presented in two books both published by Springer, the present and a second one, entitled “SYNER-G: Typology Definition…

Towards a Territorial Multi-Disaster Buildings’ Resistance Certification

Disaster risk is increasing, not only in number of events, but also in incurred losses. Such increases are being driven also by the growing exposure of assets, due to the rapid urban growth, because vulnerability decreases as countries develop, but not enough to compensate. The situation will be more and more critical, due to the growth of the amount of the building stock. Thus we need new init…

Adapting to Climate Change: Lessons from Natural Hazards Planning

This book identifies lessons learned from natural hazard experiences to help communities plan for and adapt to climate change. Written by leading experts, the case studies examine diverse experiences, from severe storms to sea-level related hazards, droughts, heat waves, wildfires, floods, earthquakes and tsunami, in North America, Europe, Australasia, Asia, Africa and Small Island Developing S…

Engineering Geology for Underground Works

The construction of tunnels involves the resolution of various complex technical problems depending on the geological and geological-environmental context in which the work fits. Only a careful analysis of all the geological and geological-environmental issues and a correct reconstruction of the conceptual model can lead to optimal design solutions from all points of view (including financia…

Education for Sustainable Development and Disaster Risk Reduction

Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) and Disaster Risk Reduction Education (DRRE) have overlapping areas of concern focusing on strengthening the link to local communities. In reality, there is significant synergy in ESD and disaster risk reduction (DRR). Both concepts urge looking at the communities, both focus on behavior changes, and both call for linking knowledge to action. The De…