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Alone in the wrong timestream, Edie must navigate a new school and try to put her first love Kian on a different path, battling those who will stop at nothing to keep her from derailing their deadly schemes.
Author : Ann Aguirre
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 20,20 MB
Release : 2016-08-02
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 125002465X
Alone in the wrong timestream, Edie must navigate a new school and try to put her first love Kian on a different path, battling those who will stop at nothing to keep her from derailing their deadly schemes.
Author : Russell Walker
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 35,99 MB
Release : 2013-04-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9814518484
This book develops the notion that companies can succeed on the basis of risk management, much as companies compete on efficiency, costs, labor, location, and other dimensions. The reality of risk and how it impacts companies is that it is much more definite, often catastrophic and looks more like a shock. This is striking, as a difference between firms on risk different than a marginal difference in operating efficiencies, for example. Competing on Risk Management requires a discipline, a commitment to using information and recognizing shocks and then acting upon those to redistribute assets. This book will examine how leading firms that compete on risk have done this and showcase best practices and impacts to the capital structure of firms and their organizational formation.
Author : Takashi Negishi
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 50,35 MB
Release : 2001-05-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780792373063
Economic Theory, Dynamics, and Markets. The collection of essays in honor of Ryuzo Sato, written by his colleagues and students, covers the many fields of economic theory and policy to which he has contributed. The first section pays tribute to his contributions to mathematical economics and economic theory. Ryuzo Sato is known for his work in growth theory and technical progress, and the second section has a number of papers on macroeconomics and dynamics. The third section has a number of papers on financial markets and their functioning in Japan and the United States. The next section examines various aspects of the economics of firms and industry. Ryuzo Sato has been very involved in analyzing the economic and business relations between Japan and the United States, and the last section is devoted to comparative analysis of economic systems.
Author : Serguey Braguinsky
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 38,31 MB
Release : 2021-02-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0691225362
Here, for the first time, two of Russia's leading economists provide an authoritative analysis of the transition to a democratic market economy that has taken place in Russia since 1990. Serguey Braguinsky, a Russian economist with extensive international experience, and Grigory Yavlinsky, leader of the liberal "Yabloko" party and a major public figure in Russia, focus on the institutions that are critical to a successful transition and the economic incentives needed to make these institutions work. Finally, they discuss in detail the specific components of the economic processes that are necessary for economic transition in general and they draw lessons that can be applied to other nations dealing with similar transitions. In 1989, Grigory Yavlinsky became a member of the Commission for Economic Reform and wrote the groundbreaking "500 Day Plan," which outlined the first program of transition to a market economy. Two years later, he co-wrote the program of strategic cooperation between the Soviet government and the West (known as the "Grand Bargain"). Here he and Serguey Braguinsky examine what went wrong with the Russian plan--and what is needed to put the economy back on the road to becoming a fully functioning market economy. The first section of the book presents a new interpretation of the political economy of the socialist state and the incentives and institutions that underpin it, with an emphasis on the present Russian situation. The second part deals with the political economy of "spontaneous transition" and the inefficiencies inherent in economies that lack the organizations and institutions that inhere in established Western democratic economies. In the final section, the authors present a program of actions to put the economic transition in Russia back on track, based on their assessment of the actual current state of both the economy and the government. Their approach is unique in emphasizing organizational evolution at the microeconomic level instead of stressing macroeconomic issues such as money and inflation that are at the heart of most arguments. This is a thoughtful and thought-provoking book and one that will be widely discussed and debated.
Author : John Y. Campbell
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 39,35 MB
Release : 2017-10-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1400888220
From the field's leading authority, the most authoritative and comprehensive advanced-level textbook on asset pricing In Financial Decisions and Markets, John Campbell, one of the field’s most respected authorities, provides a broad graduate-level overview of asset pricing. He introduces students to leading theories of portfolio choice, their implications for asset prices, and empirical patterns of risk and return in financial markets. Campbell emphasizes the interplay of theory and evidence, as theorists respond to empirical puzzles by developing models with new testable implications. The book shows how models make predictions not only about asset prices but also about investors’ financial positions, and how they often draw on insights from behavioral economics. After a careful introduction to single-period models, Campbell develops multiperiod models with time-varying discount rates, reviews the leading approaches to consumption-based asset pricing, and integrates the study of equities and fixed-income securities. He discusses models with heterogeneous agents who use financial markets to share their risks, but also may speculate against one another on the basis of different beliefs or private information. Campbell takes a broad view of the field, linking asset pricing to related areas, including financial econometrics, household finance, and macroeconomics. The textbook works in discrete time throughout, and does not require stochastic calculus. Problems are provided at the end of each chapter to challenge students to develop their understanding of the main issues in financial economics. The most comprehensive and balanced textbook on asset pricing available, Financial Decisions and Markets is an essential resource for all graduate students and practitioners in finance and related fields. Integrated treatment of asset pricing theory and empirical evidence Emphasis on investors’ decisions Broad view linking the field to financial econometrics, household finance, and macroeconomics Topics treated in discrete time, with no requirement for stochastic calculus Forthcoming solutions manual for problems available to professors
Author : Cass R. Sunstein
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 49,9 MB
Release : 2021-04-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1479808482
Best-selling author Cass R. Sunstein examines how to avoid worst-case scenarios The world is increasingly confronted with new challenges related to climate change, globalization, disease, and technology. Governments are faced with having to decide how much risk is worth taking, how much destruction and death can be tolerated, and how much money should be invested in the hopes of avoiding catastrophe. Lacking full information, should decision-makers focus on avoiding the most catastrophic outcomes? When should extreme measures be taken to prevent as much destruction as possible? Averting Catastrophe explores how governments ought to make decisions in times of imminent disaster. Cass R. Sunstein argues that using the “maximin rule,” which calls for choosing the approach that eliminates the worst of the worst-case scenarios, may be necessary when public officials lack important information, and when the worst-case scenario is too disastrous to contemplate. He underscores this argument by emphasizing the reality of “Knightian uncertainty,” found in circumstances in which it is not possible to assign probabilities to various outcomes. Sunstein brings foundational issues in decision theory in close contact with real problems in regulation, law, and daily life, and considers other potential future risks. At once an approachable introduction to decision-theory and a provocative argument for how governments ought to handle risk, Averting Catastrophe offers a definitive path forward in a world rife with uncertainty.
Author : A.F. Siegel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 26,3 MB
Release : 2017-11-22
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 1351457640
This volume contains six early mathematical works, four papers on fiducial inference, five on transformations, and twenty-seven on a miscellany of topics in mathematical statistics. Several previously unpublished works are included.
Author : Chris Kahlenborn
Publisher : One More Soul
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 31,94 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780966977738
Author : Norah Moore
Publisher : Author House
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 33,75 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1481793373
This book brings together the teachings of Meher Baba and the teachings of Carl Gustav Jung for the first time. Many people would wish to bring together their inner experience of spirituality and psychological development. Meher Baba did not come to bring a new religion but a philosophy that brought all religions together. In this first book The Sound of Bells, and Eastern Mysticism I looked at C.G.Jung's Analytical Psychology in the light of Meher Baba's book God Speaks. In the second book of the trilogy Glowing Embers for the New Humanity, God can only be Lived, I brought a more detailed account of how this might be accomplished. In the final book of the trilogy I turned to a more personal account of how I followed this path myself and summed up how the path has been followed throughout all the avataric ages .
Author : Mark J. Schervish
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 732 pages
File Size : 23,9 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 1461242509
The aim of this graduate textbook is to provide a comprehensive advanced course in the theory of statistics covering those topics in estimation, testing, and large sample theory which a graduate student might typically need to learn as preparation for work on a Ph.D. An important strength of this book is that it provides a mathematically rigorous and even-handed account of both Classical and Bayesian inference in order to give readers a broad perspective. For example, the "uniformly most powerful" approach to testing is contrasted with available decision-theoretic approaches.