into activities with high risk and excessive uncertainty. This timely volume analyses these matters and considers the range … in assets. Products must comply with profit and risk-sharing criteria and regulations preventing banks from venturing …'s well-being. The volume explores in detail the nature of Islamic banking products and their risk elements, how the system …

One of the unforeseen consequences of the WTO agreements has been controversy over risk. This volume explores aspects … of risk with special reference to the WTO, where national instruments to reduce risk may conflict with international … trade rules. The book is divided into sections dealing with: accounting for risk in trade agreements; risk and the WTO …

management decisions, and the theoretical underpinnings for why corporations with well-diversified shareholders would reduce risk … and the Liability Insurance Crisis', Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 5 3, 253-72 -- David Mayers and Clifford W. Smith Jr …There is a broad range of literature on the economics of insurance and risk management. This timely publication …

academic research articles one should know in risk measurement and management. Through his central position in financial … Diebold's fascinating compilation summarizes the history of risk management research, focussing on research prior to the … involved in risk management, both in academia and in industry.'--Andrew Lo, MIT Sloan Management, US. This authoritative volume …

This book investigates the relationships between rural poverty, risk, and development. Building upon the author's work … in the area, it summarises the contributions of recent theoretical and empirical work to our understanding of how risk … affects rural poverty levels in developing countries. In particular the book examines what we do and do not know about risk …

Press. -- Knight, Frank H. (1921) Risk, Uncertainty and Profit, Boston: Houghton Mifflin. -- Landes, David S., Joel Mokyr …

-mutuel Games', Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 8 (3), 309-17 -- Charles T. Clotfelter and Philip J. Cook (1991), 'Lotteries in the … Real World', Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 4 (3), 227-32 -- Charles T. Clotfelter and Philip J. Cook (1993), 'Notes: The … Tamarkin (1998), 'Bettors Love Skewness, Not Risk, at the Horse Track', Journal of Political Economy, 106 (1), 205 …

Recently there has been a resurgence of interest in the study of optimal monetary policy under uncertainty. This book …