Traditional surplus production models are based on restrictive assumptions of fish population dynamics and distribution, fish catch, and fishing effort, and can provide misleading guidelines for fisheries management. Following a review of two conventional models and later contributions, this...

The main objective of this paper is to estimate a statistical model that incorporates information at different levels: collateral, facility, industry, zone and the macro economy to predict the Recovery Rates which will enable the bank to arrive at the Loss Given Default figure that would help to...

Understanding business vulnerability to disasters is important forloss estimation, hazard mitigation, disaster preparedness, andrecovery planning. However, only a very small number of studieshave focused systematically on that topic. This paper presentspreliminary findings from a study of a...