Managing uncertainty, mitigating risk : tackling the unknown in financial risk assessment and decision making /

"Risk management as a discipline is evolving, evolving to deal with fat tails, evolving to deal with macro-economic drivers and basic forms of nonlinearity. And yet, financial risk management remains limited to the confines of quantification, forced to use the crutch of mathematical models. The...

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Main Authors: Firoozye, Nikan B. (Author), Ariff, Fauziah (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
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