"This book presents a technical approach to promoting the development of disaster and climate change risk financing and transfer strategies, and discusses several practical issues, chiefly focusing on Latin America and the Caribbean. Innovative risk financing and insurance mecha…
Today's financial sector faces multiple challenges stemming from ecological, societal, and technological risks such as climate change, political extremism, and cyber-attacks. However, these non-traditional risks are yet to be fully identified and measured, in order to ensure the…
This book helps students, researchers and quantitative finance practitioners to understand both basic and advanced topics in the valuation and modeling of financial and commodity derivatives, their institutional framework and risk management. It provides an overview of the new r…
This book helps students, researchers and quantitative finance practitioners to understand both basic and advanced topics in the valuation and modeling of financial and commodity derivatives, their institutional framework and risk management. It provides an overview of the new r…
Da una visión alternativa de finanzas y economía, que reconoce el papel del riesgo y la incertidumbre en las decisiones de los agentes económicos. Fomenta la cultura de la Administración de riesgos, y reúne para su estudio herramientas, modelos y técnicas útiles en la identifica…
This book presents arguments that are critical of the Basel II Accord, particularly the advanced measurement approach to operational risk. It identifies the good, bad and ugly with respect to practices pertaining to the implementation of the operational risk provisions of Basel …
The book presents arguments that are critical of the Basel II Accord, particularly the advanced measurement approach to operational risk. It is argued that the advanced measurement approach is not viable in terms of costs and benefits and is likely to distract financial institut…