The Handbook of Personality and Self-Regulation integrates scholarly research on self-regulation in the personality, developmental, and social psychology traditions for a broad audience of social and behavioral scientists interested in the processes by which people control, or f…
This article-by-article commentary sheds light on the UN Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) Rules which govern a wide range of arbitrations, including the Iran-US Claims Tribunal and NAFTA disputes. This edition takes full account of the revised rules adopted in 20…
Contains commentary and analysis on the catastrophic events which have recently confronted the international economy in the modern era and contrasts the current situation with other financial crises. It includes case studies on Lehman Brothers in the US, Babcock & Brown in Austr…
Biological controls that utilize natural predation, parasitism or other natural mechanisms, is an environmentally friendly alternative to chemical pesticides. Chemical pesticide methods are becoming less readily available due to increasing resistance problems and the prohibition…
Focusing on financial institutions in isolation during the 2007-2009 financial crisis resulted in a serious underestimation of the wider systemic risk in play. Systemic Risk Assessment and Oversight addresses this analytical gap by outlining a bottom-up portfolio approach to sys…
Market microstructure in practice
This is the survival guide for trading in a world where high-frequency trading predominates in markets, accounting for upwards of 60% of trading in equities and futures, and 40% in foreign exchange. High-frequency trading is the subject of extensive debate, particularly as to wh…
Stress testing: approaches, methods and applications
Stress Testing: Approaches, Methods and Applications explores and clarifies the methodology, impetus and functions of stress testing within the context of the latest practices and regulations faced by banks and other financial institutions. The authoritative guide and reference …
Updates developments which have taken place since the previous edition in 1983. The measurement of temperature is the most common and important physical measurement in both research and industry, and this book provides a guide to thermometry, including the 1990 International Tem…
This state-of-the-art volume explores how emotion regulation mechanisms are implicated in the etiology, development, and maintenance of psychopathology.