Insurance

The Operational Risk Handbook for Financial Companies is a groundbreaking new book. It seeks to apply for the first time a range of proven operational risk techniques from other industries and disciplines to the troubled territory of financial services...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781619613935Author Joel ZimelsternFormat PaperbackPage Count 126Imprint Lioncrest PublishingPublisher Lioncrest PublishingWeight(grams) 154gDimensions(mm)...

Insurance Economics brings together the economic analysis of decision making under risk, risk management and demand for insurance among individuals and corporations, objectives pursued and management tools used by insurance companies, the regulation of...

The world is in the midst of a storm that has shaped the history of modernity along a double fracture: on the one hand, an environmental fracture driven by a technocratic and capitalist civilization that led to the ongoing devastation of the Earth's...

A government takeover of the US health care system has never looked more plausible. Support for the idea is at an all-time high. Two-thirds of Democratic voters favor "single-payer" health care; even one in four Republicans is on board. In this...

This title examines the concepts of systems reliability and the techniques available for determining both 'technical' and 'human' hazard and risk. Emphasis is placed on technical systems and human factors and the increasing importance of psychological...

Security Officers and Supervisors: 150 Things You Should Know presents an array of relevant topics, including addressing "Tips of the Trade" in how to manage a team of professionals and serve as an effective supervisor. This includes both keeping...

A guide on how Predictive Analytics is applied and widely used by organizations such as banks, insurance providers, supermarkets and governments to drive the decisions they make about their customers, demonstrating who to target with a promotional offer,...

From a giant of health care policy, an engaging and enlightening account of why American health care is so expensive-and why it doesn't have to beUwe Reinhardt was a towering figure and moral conscience of health care policy in the United States and...

Viewed from the perspective of environmental management, this study describes the implications and applications of the precautionary principle - a theory of avoiding risk even when its likelihood seems remote. This principle has been employed in the...

A thought-provoking and invaluable book for anyone who cares about risk communication and management in the 21st century Anna Jung, Director General, European Food Information Council Professor Ragnar L fstedt has once again produced a most...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780473453220Author Praveen KumarFormat PaperbackPage Count 92Imprint ShooniyaPublisher ShooniyaWeight(grams) 145gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 6mm

Life insurance-the promise of an insurer to pay a sum upon a person's death in exchange for a regular premium-is a bizarre enterprise. How can we monetize human life? Should we? What statistics do we use, what assumptions do we make, and what behavioral...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781637814284Author Govind JohriFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Notion PressPublisher Notion PressWeight(grams) 426gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 17mm

The HAZOP Leader's Handbook is designed specifically to help HAZOP leaders plan and execute successful HAZOP studies, based on the author's many years of experience of participating in, observing and facilitating HAZOP studies, as well as observing,...

This is a major, and deeply thoughtful, contribution to understanding uncertainty and risk. Our world and its unprecedented challenges need such ways of thinking! Much more than a set of contributions from different disciplines, this book leads you to...

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...

Aimed at practitioners who need to understand the current fixed income markets and learn the techniques necessary to master the fundamentals, this book provides a thorough but concise description of fixed income markets, looking at the business, products...

It is commonly thought that, thanks to globalization, nation-state borders are becoming increasingly porous. Steffen Mau shows that this view is misleading: borders are not getting more permeable today, but rather are being turned into powerful sorting...

This book outlines risk management theory systematically and comprehensively while distinguishing it from academic fields such as insurance theory. In addition, the book builds a risk financing theory that is independent of insurance theory.Until now,...

This book explores how parents understand and engage with childhood vaccination in contrasting global contexts. This rapidly advancing and universal technology has sparked dramatic controversy, whether over MMR in the UK or oral polio vaccines in Nigeria...

This book is a unique guide to the disruptions, innovations, and opportunities that technology provides the insurance sector and acts as an academic/industry-specific guide for creating operational effectiveness, managing risk, improving financials, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578478135Author Al DeckerFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint Ermsttp. LLCPublisher Ermsttp. LLCWeight(grams) 209gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 8mm

This book deals with Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) and, in particular, Quantitative Risk Management (QRM) in life insurance business. Constituting a "bridge" between traditional actuarial mathematics and insurance risk management processes, its...

Discover the crisis management tools that successful executives and managers utilize to stay ahead of crises, before they happen.From tragic accidents to public relations fiascos, we live in an increasingly crisis-ridden society. In fact, half of the...

This advanced undergraduate/graduate textbook teaches students in finance and economics how to use R to analyse financial data and implement financial models. It demonstrates how to take publically available data and manipulate, implement models and...

Environmental sustainability is perhaps the key societal challenge of our times. Achieving it will require a significant level of financing and investment, and here the role of the banking industry is fundamental. Banks can play a broader and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781735878676Author Karen HardyFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint 62 Media PublishingPublisher 62 Media PublishingWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm) 210mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996055208Author Bart BakerFormat PaperbackPage Count 138Imprint Think It PublishingPublisher Think It PublishingWeight(grams) 168gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

This book assesses the role of the doctrine of insurable interest within modern insurance law by examining its rationales and suggesting how shortcomings could be fixed.Over the centuries, English law on insurable interest - a combination of statutes and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780985876517Author Kenneth Black, JrFormat HardbackPage Count 848Imprint Lucretian, LLCPublisher Lucretian, LLCWeight(grams) 1651gDimensions(mm) 235mm *...

This self-contained volume brings together a collection of chapters by some of the most distinguished researchers and practitioners in the fields of mathematical finance and financial engineering. Presenting state-of-the-art developments in theory and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780620976343Author Logan NaiduFormat PaperbackPage Count 338Imprint Logan NaiduPublisher Logan NaiduWeight(grams) 454g

Environmental sustainability is perhaps the key societal challenge of our times. Achieving it will require a significant level of financing and investment, and here the role of the banking industry is fundamental. Banks can play a broader and...

This book offers a practical solution for every organization that needs to monitor the effectiveness of their risk management. Written by a practising chief risk officer, Risk Maturity Models enables you to build confidence in your organization's risk...

Every year, financial services organizations make billions of dollars worth of decisions using automated systems. For example, who to give a credit card to and the premium someone should pay for their home insurance. This book explains how the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780965649650Author David H PascoeFormat PaperbackPage Count 540Imprint D. H. Pascoe & Co., Inc.Publisher D. H. Pascoe & Co., Inc.Weight(grams)...

High-level guidance for implementing enterprise risk management in any organization A Practical Guide to Risk Management shows organizations how to implement an effective ERM solution, starting with senior management and risk and compliance professionals...

There are two questions often asked of risk communication: what has been learned from past work, and what is needed to push the field forward? Drawing on the experience of leading risk researchers and practitioners, Effective Risk Communication focuses...

This book covers Operational Risk Management (ORM), in the current context, and its new role in the risk management field. The concept of operational risk is subject to a wide discussion also in the field of ORM's literature, which has increased...