Cargando…
Acts of God and man : ruminations on risk and insurance /
Much has been written about the ups and downs of financial markets, from the lure of prosperity to the despair of crisis. However, there exists a more fundamental and pernicious source of uncertainty in today's world: the traditional ""insurance"" risks of earthquakes, storm...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
|---|---|
| Autor principal: | |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
New York :
Columbia Business School Pub.,
©2012.
|
| Colección: | Columbia Business School Publishing
|
| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Living with risk
- The alpha and the omega of risk the significance of mortality
- Into the unknown modeling uncertainty
- The shapes of things to come probabilities and parameters
- The value of experience independence and estimation
- It's all in your head bayesian decision making
- The realm of insurance
- Aloofness and quasi-aloofness defining insurance risks
- Trustworthy transfer; probable pooling financing insurance risks
- God-awful guessing and bad behavior solvency and underwriting
- The good, the bad, the role of risk classification
- And the lawyerly liability and government compensation
- Scientific challenges
- What is randomness? knowable and unknowable complexity
- Patterns, real and imagined observation and theory
- False choices and black boxes the costs of limited data
- Nullifying the dull hypothesis conventional versus personalized science
- Games and the mind modeling human behavior.