The failure of risk management why it's broken and how to fix it
An essential guide to the calibrated risk analysis approach The Failure of Risk Management takes a close look at misused and misapplied basic analysis methods and shows how some of the most popular ""risk management"" methods are no better than astrology! Using examples from the...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken, New Jersey :
John Wiley & Sons
2009.
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| Edición: | 1st edition |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009627622906719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- THE FAILURE OF RISK MANAGEMENT: Why It's Broken and How to Fix It; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Part One: An Introduction to the Crisis; Chapter 1: Healthy Skepticism for Risk Management; Chapter 2: Risk Management: A Very Short Introduction to Where We've Been and Where (We Think) We Are; Chapter 3: How Do We Know What Works?; Part Two: Why It's Broken; Chapter 4: The ''Four Horsemen'' of Risk Management: Some (Mostly) Sincere Attempts to Prevent an Apocalypse; Chapter 5: An Ivory Tower of Babel: Fixing the Confusion about Risk
- Chapter 6: The Limits of Expert Knowledge: Why We Don't Know What We Think We Know about UncertaintyChapter 7: Worse Than Useless: The Most Popular Risk Assessment Method and Why It Doesn't Work; Chapter 8: Black Swans, Red Herrings, and Invisible Dragons: Overcoming Conceptual Obstacles to Improved Risk Management; Chapter 9: Where Even the Quants Go Wrong: Common and Fundamental Errors in Quantitative Models; Part Three: How to Fix It; Chapter 10: The Language of Uncertain Systems: The First Step Toward Improved Risk Management
- Chapter 11: The Outward-Looking Modeler: Adding Empirical Science to RiskChapter 12: The Risk Community: Intra-and Extraorganizational Issues of Risk Management; Appendix: Additional Calibration Tests and Answers; Index
