Risk and Financial Catastrophe

The risk process commonly used in the corporate world to deal with risks may be suitable for non-catastrophic events, but not for extreme events. By analyzing a series of past disasters and the relevant 'lessons learned', this books proposes a series of prescriptive measures to cope with f...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Banks, Erik
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London Palgrave Macmillan UK 2009, 2009
Series:Palgrave Macmillan Finance and Capital Markets Series
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary:The risk process commonly used in the corporate world to deal with risks may be suitable for non-catastrophic events, but not for extreme events. By analyzing a series of past disasters and the relevant 'lessons learned', this books proposes a series of prescriptive measures to cope with future disasters
Physical Description:VIII, 213 p online resource
ISBN:9780230243323