Risk and Financial Catastrophe

✍ Scribed by Erik Banks (auth.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year: 2009
Tongue: English
Leaves: 219
Series: Palgrave Macmillan Finance and Capital Markets Series
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-viii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Taxonomy of Risk....Pages 3-20
Catastrophes....Pages 21-42
Financial Catastrophe....Pages 43-74
Front Matter....Pages 75-75
The Risk Management Process....Pages 77-96
Models, Metrics, and Limitations....Pages 97-118
Front Matter....Pages 119-119
Past Catastrophes....Pages 121-164
Lessons Learned and Prescriptive Measures....Pages 165-185
The Future of Risk Management....Pages 186-192
Back Matter....Pages 193-213

✦ Subjects

Risk Management; Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics; Business Strategy/Leadership; Accounting/Auditing; Banking

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