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Books on Risk Management
2006
 
Managing Risks in Public Organisations
by Martin Fone and Peter C. Young; August 2006; ISBN 1899287760
Written by experts, and based on extensive research within risk management, the focus of this publication is to re-address the unique risks faced within a public sector environment. These risks include the numerous legal, social and political attributes not seen within the private sector. This comprehensive overview of risk management in public organizations focuses upon the key issues within the field.
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Risk Management and Financial Institutions
by John C. Hull; May 2006; ISBN 0132397900

This book takes risk management theory and explains it in a “this is how you do it” manner for practical application in today’s real world. It offers students the ability to gain knowledge that will stay with them beyond college and be useful in the real world.

 

Based on one of the most popular MBA courses at University of Toronto entitled “Financial Risk Management”, this text focuses on the ways banks and other financial institutions measure market, credit and operational risk. The practical nature of the book lends itself to a “this is how you do it” presentation style that includes excellent account of the new Basel II regulatory requirements for banks effective in 2007.

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2005
Asset & Risk Management
by Louis Esch, Robert Kieffer, Thierry Lopez, C. Berbé, P. Damel, M. Debay, and J.-F. Hannosset; March 2005; ISBN 0471491446
The aim of this book is to study three essential components of modern finance – Risk Management, Asset Management and Asset and Liability Management, as well as the links that bind them together.

It is divided into five parts:

  • Part I sets out the financial and regulatory contexts that explain the rapid development of these three areas during the last few years and shows the ways in which the Risk Management function has developed recently in financial institutions.
  • Part II is dedicated to the underlying theories of Asset Management and deals in depth with evaluation of financial assets and with theories relating to equities, bonds and options.
  • Part III deals with a central theory of Risk Management, the general theory of Value at Risk or VaR, its estimation techniques and the setting up of the methodology.
  • Part IV is the point at which Asset Management and Risk Management meet. It deals with Portfolio Risk Management (the application of risk management methods to private asset management), with an adaptation of Sharpe’s simple index method and the EGP method to suit VaR and application of the APT method to investment funds in terms of behavioural analysis.
  • Part V is the point at which Risk Management and Asset and Liability Management (ALM) meet, and touches on techniques for measuring structural risks within the on and off balance sheet.
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Auditing for Managers : The Ultimate Risk Management Tool
by K. H. Spencer Pickett and Jennifer M. Pickett; February 2005; ISBN 0470090987
This book is designed as a corporate resource to help managers and their teams set standards for self-auditing, risk management, compliance review, and formal disclosure reporting. Readers will learn proven, effective techniques for performing reliable and defensible audit reviews to ensure compliance with regulations and standards.
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Auditing the Risk Management Process
by K. H. Spencer Pickett; June 2005; ISBN 0471690538
Risk management is now a part of mainstream corporate life that touches all aspects of every type of organization. Auditors must now focus firmly on risk: risk to the business, risk to the executives, and risk to the stakeholders. Auditing the Risk Management Process incorporates all the latest developments in risk management as it applies to auditors, including the new The Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO) enterprise risk paper.

Auditing the Risk Management Process includes:

  • Original risk maps and process models developed by the author, explaining where and how topics fit within an overall audit framework
  • All the latest developments in risk management as it applies to auditors
  • Insight into how enterprise risk management affects the responsibilities of both internal and external auditors

Learn to navigate the risks your corporation faces today, and tomorrow, with the able guidance found in Auditing the Risk Management Process.

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Beating IT Risks
by Ernest Jordan and Luke Silcock; January 2005; ISBN 047002190X
This book is an essential guide for anyone at risk from information technology failure. The book provides proven models and evaluation tools that will guide board members, senior management, IT leaders and business unit managers in decision-making, monitoring and negotiation roles. Featuring real-world PA Consulting Group case studies along with the authors' own direct experience in managing IT risks, this book will sit above more specialist titles to help you develop an integrated and comprehensive understanding of different IT risks and how to combat them. The authors cover all types of IT risk, and offer explicit guidance about what to consider when implementing a risk management approach to best meet an individual company's needs.
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Catastrophic Risk : Analysis and Management
by Erik Banks; April 2005; ISBN 0470012366
The book is divided into two parts:

Part I, Identification and Analysis of Catastrophic Risk, of the text introduces the topic of catastrophe risk management by examining general facets of financial and operating risk and defining the unique qualities of high severity/low frequency risks. Several chapters are then devoted to the risk identification process, with a particular focus on natural and man-made perils and regional vulnerabilities. Methods of quantifying catastrophe risks, including the development of a multi-stage modelling process, are then explored.

Part II, Management of Catastrophic Risk, of the text builds on the identification and modelling phases by introducing a general framework for the management of catastrophe risks. Specific chapters are devoted to the implementation of pre- and post-loss financing solutions, including insurance and reinsurance, catastrophe bonds and contingent capital, catastrophe derivatives, and public management and financing. The book concludes with a discussion of critical issues and future challenges related to effective management of catastrophe risks.

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Mumpsimus Revisited: Essays on Risk Management
by H. Felix Kloman; Xlibris Corporation; May 2005; ISBN 1413487203 (hardcover) or 141348719X (paperback)
collection of short essays from the pages of Risk Management Reports, a periodical that the H. Felix Kloman has written, edited, and published the periodical Risk Management Reports since 1974. This volume includes a collection of his essays from the periodical.
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The Social Contours of Risk (Volume 2): Risk Analysis, Corporations, and the Globalization of Risk (Risk, Society and Policy Series)
by Roger E. Kasperson; Earthscan Publications (April 2005); ISBN 1844071758 (paperback)
We live in a ‘risk society’ where the identification, distribution and management of risks, from new technology, environmental factors or other sources are crucial to our individual and social existence. In The Social Contours of Risk, Volumes I and II, two of the world’s leading and most influential analysts of the social dimensions of risk bring together their most important contributions to this fundamental and wide-ranging field.

Volume II centres on the analysis and management of risk in society, in international business and multinationals, and globally. The ‘acceptability’ of risk to an individual depends on the context, whether the larger society or in, for example, a corporate framework. Their work clarifies the structures and processes for managing risks in the private sector and the factors that produce or impede effective decisions. The authors demonstrate that corporate culture is crucial in determining risk management. They analyse the transfer of corporate risk management systems from industrial to developing countries, and how globalization is spreading and creating new kinds of risk – the combination of traditional and modern hazards presented by climate change, technology transfer and economic growth. They describe the new priorities and capacities needed to deal with these enhanced vulnerabilities around the globe.
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2004
Alternative Risk Transfer : Integrated Risk Management Through Insurance, Reinsurance and the Capital Markets
by Erik Banks; March 2004; ISBN 0470857455
The Alternative Risk Transfer (ART) market has expanded in recent years to become a vital source of risk solutions and risk capacity and an important mechanism for the creation of integrated corporate risk management programs. The ART market unites the risk management and product development skills of financial institutions, insurers and reinsurers with the capital of global investors to give corporate risk managers the best possible means of managing financial and operating risks. In a time when natural and man-made disasters and financial volatility are constantly present, the need for dependable, equitably priced risk capacity and innovative, holistic risk solutions has never been greater. The ART market, which can supply both, is thus becoming an integral component of the 21st century financial markets. This book provides a practical, detailed and up-to-date review of the topic. It contains numerous worked examples and case studies to place the subject in a practical light, and is ideal reading for CFOs, corporate risk managers, treasurers, institutional investors and fund managers seeking to understand the ART market.
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Classics in Risk Management (Elgar Mini Series)
by W. Kip Viscusi and Ted Gayer, Editors; August 2004; ISBN 1840640324
This two-volume collection of key papers by leading scholars provides a comprehensive perspective on the evaluation and performance of risk regulation polices. An analysis of the statistical life provides the basis for an examination of the risk money tradeoffs reflected in individual decisions in the labor, product and housing markets and an investigation of how these concepts can be used to evaluate government regulatory policies, including the newly developed risk-risk analysis approach. The volumes also offer an assessment of the performance of government risk regulations and a comprehensive analysis of the formation of risk beliefs and the role of hazard warnings policies in fostering improved risk decisions. The editors have written an authoritative introduction which presents a review of the selected papers and identifies interesting topics for future research.
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Corporate Financial Risk Management : A Computer-based Guide for Nonspecialists
by Roy L. Nersesian; February 2004; ISBN 1567205844
What if you could understand financial risk management without immersing yourself in high-level mathematics? In this straightforward, readable guide--which requires only a working familiarity with financial spreadsheets--Nersesian explains what financial risk management is, describes its various forms, and shows how to anticipate and cope with it.
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The Economics of Risk
by Donald J. Meyer (Editor); January 2004; ISBN 0880992670
This collection offers an economics-based overview of the various facets of risk. It contains six papers that examine a broad array of research relating to risk. Two papers examine risk management and its application to decision making as well as what researchers have learned over the past few decades in their theoretical investigations of risk. The remaining chapters examine how risk plays out in the particular markets in which it has a significant presence, including casino gambling enterprises, agricultural markets, auctions, and health insurance.
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Effective Maintenance Management: Risk and Reliability Strategies for Optimizing Performance
by V. Narayan; March 2004; ISBN 0831131780
Providing a clear explanation of the value and benefits of maintenance, this unique guide is written in a language and style that practicing engineers and managers can understand and apply easily. This book examines the role of maintenance in minimizing the risk of safety or environmental incidents, adverse publicity, and loss of profitability. In addition to discussing risk reduction tools, it explains their applicability to specific situations, thereby enabling you to select the tool that best fits your requirements. Intended to bridge the gap between designers/maintainers and reliability engineers, this guide is sure to help businesses utilize their assets more effectively, safely, and profitably.
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Essentials of Risk Management, The 
by Michel Crouhy, Dan Galai, Robert Mark, Michel Crouhy, Dan Galai, and Robert Mark; March 2004; ISBN 0071429662
Ignorance of financial risk management leaves many non-risk professionals wondering, "What did I miss?" The Essentials of Risk Management provides decision makers with the tools they need to understand, manage, and address high-risk situations with foresight instead of hindsight. Topics include tools for consolidating and managing a firm's risk, models for measuring volatility, correlations, and much more.
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Hedge Fund Risk Fundamentals: Solving the Risk Management and Transparency Challenge
by Richard Horwitz; August 2004; ISBN 1576601633
In the constantly evolving hedge fund marketplace, nothing is more central—but in many ways, more amorphous and elusive—than risk. Yet there remains no standard for analyzing and measuring risk within this highly secretive, largely unregulated field, leaving the thousands of hedge funds—and the tens of thousands of hedge fund investors—in dangerously dim light. The industry has not solved the "transparency" challenge—communicating risk to investors without disclosing proprietary information.

This is the first book to bring these issues to the forefront. With clarity, concision, and minimal math, the author lays out the key components and the cutting-edge processes in the field of hedge fund risk management today. Against that backdrop he presents a groundbreaking utility destined to set the standard for transparency and risk management within the hedge fund universe.

You'll learn why, when it comes to risk management, that 1 + 1 = 1.41. For all of those perplexed by the difficulties of assessing risk in hedge fund investing, the author's concepts make for an invaluable road map and a demystifying resource that hedge funds and investors at all levels will find indispensable.

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How Safe Is Safe Enough?: Leadership, Safety and Risk Management
by Gregory Alston; January 2004; ISBN 075463891X
Safety is not easy, it is a full time effort and is equally important whether people are on the job or on personal time. If an organization is serious about mission success, it must take "risk" seriously as well. Leaders need to be involved in the risk game at every turn and understand the key elements (discussed throughout this book) that help them to win. Winning the risk game is what safety is all about. As in operational success, risk management requires the best human faculties to achieve victory; talent of organizational players and commitment from top leadership rule the day. This book is a broad-brush overview of the key elements, or tools, for leadership to use to manage risk effectively. Often, managers at various levels do not have an understanding of what goes into a safety programme, this book tells them, from an expert's view. It is also a supplemental textbook for safety and risk management courses.
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Introduction to Risk Management and Insurance (8th Edition)
by Mark S. Dorfman; April 2004; ISBN 0131449583
This book focuses on problem-solving from managerial, consumer, and societal perspectives. It emphasizes both the business managerial aspects of risk management and insurance and the numerous consumer applications of the concept of risk management and insurance transaction. Specific chapter topics include insurance Regulation and contracts, basic property and liability insurance contracts, homeowners insurance, the personal auto policy, professional financial planning, life insurance policies, annuities, medical expense and disability insurance, standard life insurance contract provisions and options, commercial property insurance, general and special liability insurance, employee benefits, social security, and unemployment and workers' compensation insurance.
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Investment Risk Management
by Yen Yee Chong; February 2004; ISBN 0470849517
Text shows how a new investment methodology is required to protect investors. Explains why regulators react slowly to investment scams, when pension funds fail to protect their investors, and why market boom-busts occur in the trade of worthless stocks. Shows how best practice risk management can help in spotting early warning signs.
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Managing Reputational Risk: Curbing Threats, Leveraging Opportunities
by Jenny Rayner; January 2004; ISBN B0001HCLO0
Managing Reputational Risk shows how any organisation can apply simple risk management principles to build stakeholder confidence and safeguard and enhance reputation. It positions reputation and its associated threats and opportunities where they rightfully belong: in the domain of the board room, at the heart of good corporate governance, leading-edge strategy development, effective risk management, corporate responsibility, comprehensive assurance and transparent communications. It illustrates, through numerous examples of good - and not so good - business practice, the importance of respecting and nurturing reputation as a critical intangible asset. It demonstrates how mastery of reputation risks can enable an organisation to be seen as responsible and responsive, as well as equipping it to meet the challenges that lie ahead.
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Operational Risk with Excel and VBA : Applied Statistical Methods for Risk Management + CD-ROM
by Nigel Da Costa Lewis; April 2004; ISBN 0471478873
This book is a valuable reference for understanding operational risk. It is also a practical guide that only discusses statistical methods that have been shown to work in an operational risk management context. It brings together a wide variety of statistical methods and models that have proven their worth, and contains a concise treatment of the topic. This book provides readers with clear explanations, relevant information, and comprehensive examples of statistical methods for operational risk management in the real world.
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Project Risk Management
by Bruce Barkley; July 2004; ISBN 007143691X
An essential reference for project and program managers, this book provides simplified concepts and the tools necessary to assess, prioritise, and manage high-risk projects and tasks. The author delivers hands-on, practical information including proven methods of integrating risk management into business and project planning; clear templates and models for preparing risk management plans; hard-nosed but easily-applied risk assessment tools such as sensitivity analysis; and tips for setting up risk management process and support systems.
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Project Risk Management Guidelines : Managing Risk in Large Projects and Complex Procurements
by Dale F. Cooper, Stephen Grey, Geoffrey Raymond, and Phil Walker; December 2004; ISBN 0470022817
This book focuses on principles, practices and techniques for effective risk management in complex and large-scale projects and procurements. Chapter by chapter, the authors present simple, practical steps and illustrate them with examples drawn from their extensive experience across different countries, sectors, cultures and project phases. Qualitative and quantitative approaches are covered. As well as traditional structures and processes, they also discuss new developments in the way projects are conducted, such as outsourcing arrangements and risk-sharing structures like public-private partnerships.

Undertaking risk management and applying its techniques can lead to improved outcomes by capturing opportunities and reducing risk exposure. Unique in its focus and featuring a wealth of checklists, tables and other resources, this book will prove an essential and enduring tool for anyone involved with project work.

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Risk and Financial Management: Mathematical and Computational Methods
by Charles Tapiero; May 2004; ISBN 0470849088
Financial risk management has become a popular practice amongst financial institutions to protect against the adverse effects of uncertainty caused by fluctuations in interest rates, exchange rates, commodity prices, and equity prices. New financial instruments and mathematical techniques are continuously developed and introduced in financial practice. These techniques are being used by an increasing number of firms, traders and financial risk managers across various industries. This book confronts the many issues and controversies, and explains the fundamental concepts that underpin financial risk management.  
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Risk and Reason: Safety, Law, and the Environment
by Cass R. Sunstein; Cambridge University Press; New edition (January 12, 2004); ISBN 0521016258
New material is included in this new release of a distinguished University of Chicago professor's 2002 book, which advocates that government authorities should produce cost benefit analyses (CBA) of accidents that cause loss of life before deciding to spend irrational huge budgets to try to prevent the risk of them happening again.
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Risk Management : The Bottleneck Is at the Top of the Bottle
by Dimitris N. Chorafas; March 2004; ISBN 1403921431
The author outlines the reasons why management risk must be examined within the perspective of each company's business challenges. He suggests there is a synergy between shareholder value and business ethics. He also underlines the importance of honesty, the risks associated with short-sighted management and over centralization, the benefits of innovative strategies and senior management's accountability for reliable financial reporting. The text is based on an extensive research project done by the author between 2000 and 2002 in the US, the UK, France, Italy and Switzerland.
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Risk Management and Error Reduction in Aviation Maintenance
by Manoj S. Patankar and James C. Taylor; April 2004; ISBN 0754619419
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Risk Management for Pensions, Endowments and Foundations
by Susan M. Mangiero; June 2004; ISBN 0471234850
This book discusses the important links among the accounting, corporate governance, and economic aspects of hedging and provides non-technical guidance about the risk management process for endowments, foundations, and pension funds. It also presents a simple step-by-step approach to risk management.
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Risk Management Systems : Technology Trends
by Martin Gorrod; March 2004; ISBN 1403916179
The author examines the many challenges for the next generation risk management system. Dramatic changes in market conditions, budgetary constraints, the evolving nature of risk within the financial organization, as well as the requirements of increasing regulation in the global market place have resulted in a totally different environment for risk systems. These applications must be functionally richer, have greater performance, provide seamless and improved integration, as well as being quick to deploy and cheaper to deliver and support. Recent advances in technology have provided a number of tools to help the risk technologist. This book summarizes these new trends and also arms the reader with the knowledge, tools and approaches required to survive in this new environment. Covering the requirements of the trader and risk manager, to how to decide whether and how to out-source or develop in-house, this book acts as the handbook for risk technologists to survive these challenges.
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Risk Modeling, Assessment and Management (2nd Edition)
by Yacov Y. Haimes; April 2004; ISBN 0471480487
This book is a holistic exploration of risk that attempts to balance the quantitative and empirical dimensions of risk assessment and management with the more qualitative and normative aspects of decision making under risk and uncertainty. The author shows how to quantify risk and construct probability in conjunction with real-world decision-making problems including institutional, organizational, political, and cultural considerations. He avoids higher mathematics whenever possible in his presentation of the material. It includes many case studies used to illustrate the analytical methods under discussion.
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Risk Transfer : Derivatives in Theory and Practice
by Christopher L. Culp; April 2004; ISBN 0471464988
The use of derivatives to manage risk dates back nearly 4,000 years. And despite the current anti-derivatives uproar--fueled by the popular press, driven by well-regarded financiers, and accompanied by government proposals to prohibit, limit, tax, or further regulate derivatives--these irreplaceable instruments are in truth straightforward and vital to numerous financial practitioners and companies. This book provides a basic understanding of the driving economic theory behind derivatives and risk transfer, then examines the advanced application and implementation of derivative instruments by corporations and institutional investors. Building the book around his popular University of Chicago graduate course, the author explores three fundamental areas in the structure and use of derivatives: the economics of risk transfer; derivatives valuation and asset lending; and speculation and hedging.
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Smart Things to Know about Risk Management
by Andrew Holmes; May 2004; ISBN 1841125075
We all know that the future is uncertain, but rather than make any attempt to actively manage our futures in a consistent way, we tend to make broadbrush assumptions based on common-sense and intuition alone. Successfully managing risk is a primary ingredient for success in a fast-paced environment where we are bombarded by the need to make critical decisions, often with little or no solid facts available and little insight into the likely outcomes. This book, in a step-by-step approach, shows the reader what is risk management and why it matters, the categories of risk, how to achieve the right balance of risk, knowing your risk appetite, how to actively manage your risks and develop a risk culture and techniques, tools and models for managing risk. Case studies are also included.
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Understanding Market, Credit, and Operational Risk: The Value at Risk Approach
by Linda Allen, Jacob Boudoukh, Anthony Saunders, and Acob Boudoukh; April 2004; ISBN 0631227091
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Value Added Risk Management in Financial Institutions : Leveraging Basel II & Risk Adjusted Performance Measurement 
by David P. Belmont; March 2004; ISBN 0470821159
The typical financial executives view of the value of risk management in their financial institution is based on the belief that risk management focuses on loss avoidance. This view is based on the history of risk management being control focused. However, risk management has evolved rapidly to address the more strategic issue of optimization of return on risk. This evolution has been accompanied by statistical, mathematical and financial techniques which when actively applied can direct an institution towards risk taking those activities, which produce disproportionately high returns on risk. The book aims to describe these techniques, illustrate their application, and discuss their strategic value in the management of financial institutions.
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Volunteers: Asset or Liability?
by Joy Jackson of Cunnart Associates Ltd.
This reference manual on establishing and maintaining an effective volunteer program provides a comprehensive look at risk management as it pertains to volunteer management and offers practical tips, suggestions and checklists for developing strategies to minimize risk.
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2003
Corporate Financial Risk Management: A Computer-based Guide for Nonspecialists
by Roy L. Nersesian; December 2003; ISBN 1567205844
In this straightforward, readable guide, which requires only a working familiarity with financial spreadsheets, this book explains what financial risk management is, describes its various forms, and shows how to anticipate and cope with it.
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Country Risk Assessment : A Guide to Global Investment Strategy
by Michel Henry Bouchet, Ephraim Clarke, and Bertrand Groslambert; May 2003; ISBN 0470845007
Country risk is a broad concept which brings together the varied disciplines of economics, finance, geopolitics, sociology and history. Based on a collective 50 years of experience as scholars, managers and advisors in the field of country risk, the authors set out to provide a solid understanding of the concepts and methodologies involved in formulating successful strategies for international risk assessment and management. With a balance between theory and practice, the book assesses the opportunities arising from the growing integration of international finance markets and presents and analyses the various sources of country risk. It provides an in-depth coverage of information sources and country risk service providers, and explains techniques for assessing and forecasting country financial crises. It includes a comprehensive review of all existing methods including the techniques of the cutting-edge market-based approaches. The book concludes with a management tool kit based on practical examples, all of which will be of interest to managers and analysts in investment banks and in corporate institutions involved in international investment, as well as to students of international finance and business.
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Derivatives Simplified : An Introduction to Risk Management
by P. Vijaya Bhaskar and B. Mahapatra; February 2003; ISBN 0761996052
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Early Warning: Using Competitive Intelligence to Anticipate Market Shifts, Control Risk, and Create Powerful Strategies
by Benjamin Gilad and Ben Gilad; September 2003; ISBN 0814407862
Surprise is rarely a good thing in business. Unexpected developments range in their effects from inconvenient to disastrous. To avoid being blindsided, companies must develop a Competitive Early Warning system, or CEW, which combines strategic planning, competitive intelligence, and management action. Such systems let organizations manage risk more effectively and prevent "industry dissonance" -- when market realities outpace corporate strategies. This book reveals how to change strategy to meet new realities, learn from the mistakes of others via the book's eye-opening stories, avoid common tactics like benchmarking and using consultants, which may do more harm than good, and how to tell executives what they need to know -- not what they want to hear. Each chapter ends with a Manager's Checklist of key points, and the book includes numerous charts, tables, and tools. 
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Effective Risk Management: Some Keys to Success
by Edmund H. Conrow; July 2003; ISBN 1563475812
This important new text defines the steps to effective risk management and helps the reader create a viable risk management process and implement it on their specific project. It will also allow you to better evaluate an existing risk management process, find some of the shortfalls, and develop and implement needed enhancements. The book helps fill a void that exists in the project risk management literature on desirable risk management process characteristics and considerations for tailoring and implementing the process on a particular project. The material illustrates attributes and practices of sound risk management that can readily be used by both project management and technical practitioners, as well as others that are less familiar with the subject.
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Energy Price Risk: Trading and Price Risk Management
by Tom James; February 2003; ISBN 1403903409
This book is the practitioner's guide to optimizing company performance using the correct price risk strategies and tools. Based on the author's extensive experience in the commodity derivatives industry, it comprehensively covers the full spectrum of the energy complex, including crude oil, petroleum products, natural gas, LPG/LNG, and electricity. Using many worked examples, this book offers practical insights and solutions.
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Enterprise Risk Management: From Incentives to Controls
by James Lam; May 2003; ISBN 0471430005
Enterprise risk management is a complex yet critical issue that all companies must deal with as they head into the twenty-first century. It empowers you to balance risks with rewards as well as people with processes. But to master the numerous aspects of enterprise risk management, you must intergrate risk management into the culture and operations of the business. In Enterprise Risk Management: From Incentives to Controls, Lam distills twenty years worth of experience in this field to give you a clear understanding of both the art and science of enterprise risk management.

Organized into four comprehensive sections, Enterprise Risk Management offers in-depth insights, practical advice, and real-world case studies that explore every aspect of this important field. For example, Section I: "Risk Management in Context" provides an introduction and foundation for the rest of the book. You’ll learn why a company should strive for balance between risk and return, and discover some of the basic reasons why risk management is such an important issue in business today. You’ll also learn seven essential risk management lessons through discussions of some of the major financial disasters of years past. With this knowledge in hand, you’ll be introduced to some of the key concepts, processes, and tools underlying risk management.

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Financial Geometry: Geometric Approach to Hedging and Risk Management
by Alvin Kuruc; June 2003; ISBN 0273661965
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Financial Risk Management: A Practitioner's Guide to Managing Market and Credit Risk (with CD-ROM)
by Steve L. Allen; February 2003; ISBN 0471219770
An invaluable resource for any professional seeking to understand modern risk management. It begins with basic concepts and builds carefully to the practical and theoretical ideas necessary for dealing with the complexities of the most sophisticated and relevant financial instruments today.
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The Hospital Safety Director's Handbook
by Kenneth S. Weinberg; November 2003; ISBN 1578391857
A director of environmental health and safety at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston for more than ten years has written this concise guide for hospital safety directors that provides practical insights into the accomplishment of goals successfully. Topics include roles, safety committees, inspectors, education, environment of care, resources, needs of facilities, and policies and procedures.
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How Safe Is Safe Enough? Leadership, Safety and Risk Management
by Greg Alston; November 2003; ISBN 075463891X
This book covers leadership, safety programs, and risk management for organizations and individuals from the perspective of its author, the deputy chief of safety for the U.S. Air Force at the Pentagon, Washington, DC. It helps in professional development, grooming current and future leaders to understand their roles in safety and risk management. The author's message includes seven safety truths, four roadblocks to achieving zero mishaps, and nine elements to risk reduction.
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Identifying and Managing Project Risk: Essential Tools for Failure-Proofing Your Project
by Tom Kendrick; April 2003; ISBN 0814407617
This book is a practical guide to minimizing the possibility of failure in critical projects. It takes readers step by step through every phase of a project, showing them how to consider the possible risks involved at every point in the process. Relevant figures and diagrams support the text and illustrate key scenarios. At the end of each chapter is an analysis of how the principles just discussed applied to a supreme example of what many once considered a truly impossible project: the building of the Panama Canal.
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International Political Risk Management, Volume II: The Brave New World
edited by Theodore H. Moran; November 2003; ISBN 0821356496
The World Bank publishes this series, which is based on the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency-Georgetown University Symposium on International Political Risk Management and offers leading-edge assessments of needs and capabilities in the international political risk insurance industry from 18 experts in the fields of international investment, finance, insurance, and academe. Contributors to this volume consider The Brave New World of the political risk insurance industry in the wake of September 11, 2001, the Argentine economic crisis, and other upheavals.
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Life-Cycle Costing: Using Activity-Based Costing and Monte Carlo Methods to Manage Future Costs and Risks
by Jan Emblemsvåg; March 2003; ISBN 0471358851
As product life-cycles become increasingly shorter and product development increasingly capital-intensive, the distance between the point of decision and that of measurable result shrinks, making the consequences of erroneous decisions abundantly clear and severe. Life-Cycle Costing (LCC), originally developed by the U.S. Department of Defense and traditionally associated with engineering, provides a means of accurately anticipating the total costs a product will incur throughout its life cycle. By incorporating Activity-Based Costing, risk management, and Monte Carlo methods, the author now presents a method for applying the benefits of LCC to a broader range of businesses. "Activity-Based LCC" not only proves flexible, effective, and efficient for most cost management considerations but also handles risk and uncertainty in a credible fashion.
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Managing Reputational Risk
by Jenny Rayner; September 2003; ISBN 047149951X
This book shows how any organisation can apply simple risk management principles to build stakeholder confidence and safeguard and enhance reputation. It positions reputation and its associated threats and opportunities where they rightfully belong: in the domain of the board room, at the heart of good corporate governance, leading-edge strategy development, effective risk management, corporate responsibility, comprehensive assurance and transparent communications. It illustrates, through numerous examples of good - and not so good - business practice, the importance of respecting and nurturing reputation as a critical intangible asset. It demonstrates how mastery of reputation risks can enable an organisation to be seen as responsible and responsive, as well as equipping it to meet the challenges that lie ahead.
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Managing Risk in Nonprofit Organizations : A Comprehensive Guide
by Melenie Herman, George L. Head, Toni E. Fogarty, and Peggy M. Jackson; September 2003; ISBN 0471236748
This book explains and defines risk management, especially as it applies to nonprofits. It provides comprehensive guidance on such topics as identifying risk, prioritising risk, selecting appropriate risk management techniques, implementing risk management techniques, monitoring risk management, and financing.
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Managing Risk in Organizations : A Guide for Managers
by J. Davidson Frame; July 2003; ISBN 0787965189
This book offers a proven framework for handling risks across all types of organizations. In this comprehensive resource, the author examines the risks routinely encountered in business, offers prescriptions to assess the effects of various risks, and shows how to develop effective strategies to cope with risks. In addition, the book is filled with practical tools and techniques used by professional risk practitioners that can be readily applied by project managers, financial managers, and any manager or consultant who deals with risk within an organization.
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Operational Risk: Regulation, Analysis and Management
by Carol Alexander; June 2003; ISBN 0273659669
Developments in IT and e-commerce, large-scale mergers and acquisitions, and increased outsourcing all suggest that operational risk exposures are substantial and growing. In recent years, bankers and financial professions have recognized the crucial and growing importance of operational risk management, and the field is currently undergoing a surge of innovation and development. In this authoritative, up-to-date book, Operational Risk, leading operational risk management expert Carol Alexander brings together contributions from the world's leading experts to identify today's best practices for measuring and managing operational risks, and assessing them in the broader context of all risk.
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Practical Risk Management: An Executive Guide to Avoiding Surprises and Losses
by Erik Banks and Richard Dunn; John Wiley & Sons; August 2003; ISBN 0470849673
Two senior banking professionals, who have managed business and state-of-the-art financial risk in large and complex financial organizations and who have been in the middle of some of the most creative developments and turbulent times that the financial markets have ever seen, offer useful and practical approaches to managing financial risk in their concise, yet thorough, book.
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Public Private Partnerships: Managing Risks and Opportunities
by Akintola Akintoye and Matthias Beck (Editors); May 2003; ISBN 063206465X
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Risk Management and Insurance
by Etti G. Baranoff; March 2003; ISBN 0471270873
The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and the Enron scandal both highlighted the importance of risk management and insurance. Giving particular attention to the market's increased sense of vulnerability and the newest technologies, this book provides a clear introduction to the complexities of this field. With chapters on topics such as e-risks and enterprise risk and a focus on connecting each chapter into the bigger picture, the approach here is to show how the latest developments and the field's traditional approaches fit together.
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Risk Management and the Environment: Agriculture in Perspective
by Robert W. Fraser, Bruce A. Babcock, Joseph N. Lekakis, (Editors); January 2003; ISBN 140200981X
Seventeen experts from academia, government and industry in the U.S., Australia, and Greece address the importance of risk management in relation to the environment in agriculture, as the world moves toward freer markets. Theoretical chapters explore such issues as the state-contingent approach to modeling uncertainty, options and irreversibles in environmental decision-making, environmentally sensitive farming practices, and the impact of environmentally sensitive policy changes on farmer behavior in conditions of uncertainty. Case studies from the U.S., Europe, and Australia illustrate the application of the theoretical approaches.
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Risk Management in Health Care Institutions: A Strategic Approach
by Florence Kavaler, Robert L. Dansby, Allen Spiegel; May 2003; ISBN 0763723142
In introducing this update of the first edition, Kavaler and Spiegel assert that human error--compounded by new technologies-- figures more than ever in health care risk management. They identify steps in the risk management process, red flags, tools, activities, and functions; and stress communication with consumers. Other contributors address financial and ethical issues, and risk identification and control in specific health care settings/systems.
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Risk-Based Decisionmaking in Water Resources X: Proceedings of the Tenth Conference, November 3-8, 2002, Santa Barbara, California
by American Society of Civil Engineers; Yakov Y. Haimes, Editor; July 2003; ISBN 0784406944
The theme of this 2002 Engineering Foundation Conferences event was "Risks of Terrorism."
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Strategic Reputation Risk Management
by Judy Larkin; February 2003; ISBN 0333995546
This book focuses upon how enhanced reputation can contribute to commercial asset management through increased share price premium and competitive performance, while reputation loss can significantly erode the ability of the business to successfully retain market share, maximize shareholder value, raise finance, manage debt, and remain independent. It provides practical models and checklists designed to plan reputation management and risk communication strategies.
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2002
Disaster Recovery Yellow Pages™ 2002 Edition
by Systems Audit Group Inc.; March 2002; ISBN 0967746833
Based on nearly two decades of disaster planning experience, this 350-page, comprehensive sourcebook helps those responsible for putting organizations "back to normal" after a crisis -- including facility managers, computer operations managers, emergency personnel, risk managers, security managers, librarians, record managers, systems executives, business recovery coordinators, claims adjusters, and insurance agents -- to locate scores of crucial but hard-to-find recovery services throughout the United States and Canada. It contains over 3000 vendors and covers over 270 categories, such as drying and dehumidification of paper and microfilm records, smoke odor counteracting services, trauma counselors, salvage, and emergency rental of POS and other computer equipment. Read press release.
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Discovering Operational DisciplineSM
by Robert J. Walter; January 2002; ISBN 0874256577 (paperback)
AntiEntropics Inc., a performance enhancement consulting firm, announces the publication of their book Discovering Operational Discipline in a paperback edition. Based on decades of observing the characteristics of high performance teams and individuals, the book examines the principles, attitudes, and values that drive organizational excellence in the areas of quality management, safety management, environmental responsibility, and profitability. A workshop on Discovering Operational Discipline is also available. For more information about the book, find its title at http://www.antientropics.com/Publications/publications.htm or at Amazon.com.
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When All Else Fails - Government as the Ultimate Risk Manager
by David A. Moss; Harvard University Press; May 2002; ISBN 0674007573 (first edition)
A Harvard Business School associate professor examines the nature and extent of the government's pivotal role as a risk manager, which touches almost every aspect of economic life. Drawing on history and economic theory, he investigates the risk-management policies that transformed both the government and countless private actors into insurers of last resort, focusing in particular on the original logic of the policies' enactment.
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2001
Banking Risk Management in a Globalizing Economy
by Panos Angelopoulos and Panos Mourdoukoutas; March 2001; ISBN 156720340X
Banking is now an active asset-liability risk management enterprise, attributable in large part to the globalization of commerce. The authors of this descriptive yet practical, applications-oriented book examine the sources and management of traditional and nontraditional banking risks, then the conventional on-balance sheet and the modern off-balance sheet risk management methods. The authors offer experienced as well as novice practitioners an easily accessable way to understand and cope with the banking risks. The book will also be useful as a supplemental text in college-level courses on money and banking and on the operation of financial markets in general.
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Book of Risk, The
by Dan Borge; May 2001; ISBN 0471323780
In this book, one of the most highly regarded industry experts illuminates the delicate process of making decisions in an uncertain world and helps both lay people and professional risk managers understand the role of "risk-management" in their work, their lives, and their businesses. This book will enable professional risk managers to truly grasp the concepts behind their tools, and it will enable their clients (investors) and their coworkers to understand them as well. Handy and easy-to-read, this book provides a down-to-earth look at an exciting field that has practical applications for everyone.
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Discovering Operational Discipline™
by AntiEntropics Inc.; Spring 2001 (first edition)
AntiEntropics Inc., a performance enhancement consulting firm, announces their book (and accompanying workshop) titled Discovering Operational Discipline. Based on decades of observing the characteristics of high performance teams and individuals, the book examines the principles, attitudes, and values that drive organizational excellence in the areas of quality management, safety management, environmental responsibility, and profitability. For more information, go to http://www.antientropics.com/Publications/publications.htm and scroll down to the book's title, or contact AntiEntropics at (301) 865-0015.
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International Political Risk Management: Exploring New Frontiers
edited by Theodore H. Moran; January 2001; ISBN 0821348345
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Introduction to Risk Management and Insurance
by Mark S. Dorfman; June 2001; ISBN 0130328111
Focusing on problem-solving, this book emphasizes the business aspects of risk management as well as consumer applications of risk management and insurance. With an analysis of many current problems facing the insurance industry, this book is both relevant and immediate. The sixth edition of Introduction to Risk Management and Insurance has been revised to include coverage of International Risk Management (and a new case study); Employment Practices Liability (with case studies on sexual harassment and the Americans with Disabilities Act); the Emergence of Private Insurance in former Communist countries; and the problems facing Social Security. A reorganization moves consumer insurance coverage forward with commercial insurance toward the rear. The book also includes an appendix on Ethics and Insurance Sales. An essential resource for any insurance professional as well as professionals responsible for risk management in any business.
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Managing Risk in the New Economy
by Dimitris N. Chorafas and Lev Borodovsky; April 2001; ISBN: 0735202176
A wake-up call for financial professionals from a world-renowned authority on risk management. The book predicts an end to the uncertainty created by credit and market meltdowns, providing a blueprint for averting financial misfortunes due to that shift. Confronts issues such as the risks characterized by highly leveraged institutions, the dangerous consequences of using derivatives to hide major losses, and the role of technology in the issue.
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Operational Risk Management; Controlling Opportunities and Threats
by Simon M. Walker; Connley Walker Pty Ltd, Australia, Publisher; ISBN 0957907400
A fresh, practical approach to operational risk management, this book aims to de-mystify operational risk management and make it a useful tool for management in any industry, not only in financial institutions. The book's topics include risk management basics, various risk modeling techniques and their application, security, fire safety, occupational health and safety, equipment and technology failures, industrial relations, litigation, and developing and implementing risk management strategies. In addition, the book provides common risk management standards and guidelines.
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The Strategic Management of Large Engineering Projects: Shaping Institutions, Risks, and Governance
by Roger Miller, Serghei Floricel, and Donald R. Lessard; February 2001; MIT Press; ISBN 0262122367
The authors analyzed 60 large engineering projects (LEP) worldwide and discovered "a gap between accepted views of how to manage LEPs and the practices being observed." They present their top six myths of strategic LEP management. See news release.
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Transboundary Risk Management
Ragnar E. Löfstedt, Joanne Linnerooth-Bayer, and Gunner Sjöstedt, Editors; April 2001; ISBN 1853835374
Environmental hazards do not respect international boundaries. In this volume, distinguished international researchers make a significant contribution to the understanding and management of transboundary environmental risks.

Numerous case studies of transboundary risks and the issues they raise are analysed. They include:

  • Nuclear power plants
  • Genetically modified crops
  • Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE)
  • Air pollution
  • Dams
  • Risk communication
  • Public participation
  • International negotiation

The transboundary risk topics addressed highlight the key political, economic, social and cultural issues of our times, such as how transboundary risks are constructed, how they are communicated within and between countries, how the authorities can build trust in political management processes, and what forms of democratic risk management institutions are appropriate.

Useful practical lessons on the management of transboundary risk at the national and international levels are drawn from the case studies. The volume provides valuable evidence and analysis for those working on international environmental issues and all aspects of risk management.

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Winning Decisions: Getting It Right the First Time
by J. Edward Russo, Paul J. H. Schoemaker; December 2001; ISBN 0385502257
Making good decisions is a skill everyone can learn, according to co-authors Russo, professor of marketing and behavioral science at Cornell University's Johnson Graduate School of Management, and Schoemaker, founder and chairman of Decision Strategies International and research director of the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School's Mack Center for Managing Technological Innovation. Their book offers a four-step decision-making framework for making good decisions quickly. (Also read news release.) They also collaborated on an earlier book, Decision Traps : Ten Barriers to Brilliant Decision-Making and How to Overcome Them (paperback edition, October 1990).
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2000
Avoiding Claims in Building Design: Risk Management in Practice 
by Malcolm Taylor; Blackwell Science Inc. ; July 2000; ISBN 0632053267
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Avoiding Surprises: Seven Steps to an Efficient, Low-cost Risk Management and Insurance Program
by Frederic Church; Shelby Pub Corp; April 2000; ISBN 0923240306
Author Frederic C. Church, Jr., describes this book as a "working manual" meant to be kept on the reader’s desk for frequent referrals. "It is practical, not theoretical, providing businesses of all sizes the tools to implement an effective risk management program," Church noted. The 2000 edition of this well-known reference book has undergone a major revision with entirely new, updated material. New topics not found in the original include enterprise risk management and new tools for creating low cost and efficient risk management programs. The book has been recommended for use in corporate and government risk management programs.
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Credit Risk Management: A Guide to Sound Business Decisions 
by Hal A. Schaeffer; John Wiley & Sons; January 2000; ISBN 0471350206

Every day, credit managers make important decisions about whether to extend credit to applicants, decisions that affect the managers' business from improving sales and revenue to protecting the business from bad credit risks. This book teaches managers how to properly analyze a credit applicant's financial data, collect other necessary information not provided by the applicant, consider all the factors that will impact the business decision, and decide whether to recommend offering credit.
A note from the author: “This book is derived from my experiences both as a credit professional and as a teacher of many credit managers. It is based on an intermediate/advanced case studies course I originally developed and taught for the American Management Association. It provides an overview of credit and then presents the reader with real life cases studies and invites them to "Make the Credit Decision." As in real life, sometimes the reader does not have all the facts. In class, the attendees were broken into small groups and given an opportunity to make their calls before what actually happened was revealed - along with the facts that were sometimes not originally shared with the credit manager.    The real value of the book, I believe, is the case studies and the opportunity the readers have to compare their decisions to those made by some of their peers. The work is not intended as an introductory book but for those who have at least a little business credit background.”

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Effective Risk Management: Some Keys to Success
by Edmund H. Conrow; March 2000; ISBN 1563473836
Risk management is an important skill that can be applied to a wide variety of projects. This important new text defines the steps to effective risk management and helps the reader to create a viable risk management process and to implement it on their specific project. It will also allow the reader to better evaluate an existing risk management process, to find some of the shortfalls, and to develop and implement needed enhancements. The author presents more than 200 lessons learned and clearly stated tips from his extensive experience working on a wide variety of projects over 20 years that both project management and technical practitioners, as well as others who are less familiar with the subject, can readily use to successfully implement risk management. (More information is available at http://www.risk-services.com/aiaabok1.htm.)
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Integrated Risk Management: Techniques and Strategies for Managing Corporate Risk
by Neil A. Doherty; March 2000; ISBN 0071358617
Over the years, risk management has developed separately in both the insurance and financial fields. Today, the two are finding value in each other's tools and techniques. This book combines the best of the two notions of risk management, insurance and financial, to develop solutions ideal for today's complex risk environment. Tools go beyond hedging strategies to also examine leveraging, post-loss financing, contingent financing, and diversification. 
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Integrated Risk Management : Techniques and Strategies for Reducing Risk
by Neil Doherty; March 2000; ISBN 0071358617
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Introduction to Aviation and Risk Management
by Alexander T. Wells and Bruce D. Chadbourne; June 2000; ISBN 1575241137
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Management of Engineering Risk
by Roger Keey; April 2000; ISBN 0-908993-25-0
This book aims to provide an overview of the strategy and techniques of engineering-risk management within technological enterprises.

The focus of the book is on the management of risk within engineering organisations. Some recent major incidents in both New Zealand and Australia have emphasised to many practising engineers the importance of implementing appropriate risk-management procedures on projects for which they are responsible. This book will be useful to members of the engineering profession and other people associated with engineering activities, who wish to implement a risk-management approach within their own organisation or project.

Managing Business Risk: An Organization-Wide Approach to Risk Management
by Peter C. Young and Steven C. Tippins; November 2000; ISBN 0814404618
Organizations have always assessed and managed risk, but until recently this function has been isolated and little understood. Now risk management is moving into a broader spotlight, taking its rightful place beside strategic and operations management. This extensive overview explains the fundamentals and highlights the changing role of risk management in managing financial and technological risks--and minimizing catastrophic risks, limiting corporate exposure to legal liability, and funding disability, retirement, and other human resource issues. Aimed at specialists and non-risk managers alike, this book also identifies special risk management considerations for specific types of businesses and industries. It presents a framework called Organizational Risk Management (ORM), which facilitates an integrated, money-saving, company-wide approach. Readers can use ORM to systematically support the corporate mission, assess and control risk, fund the purchase of insurance and other risk management tools, and finance corporate losses. 
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Measuring Risk in Complex Stochastic Systems
by Jurgen Franke (Editor), Wolfgang Hardle (Editor), Gerhard Stahl (Editor); June 2000; ISBN 038798996X
Papers presented during a conference on Measuring Risk in Complex Stochastic Systems, Berlin, Germany, September 25-30, 1999. Discusses economic theory, allocation problems, credit scoring, volatility structures, general market risk, country risk, and extreme value theory.
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The Perception of Risk (Risk, Society and Policy Series)
by Paul Slovic; October 2000; ISBN 1853835277
The concept of risk is an outgrowth of our society’s great concern about coping with the dangers of modern life. The Perception of Risk brings together the work of Paul Slovic, one of the world’s leading analysts of risk, risk perception and risk management, to examine the gap between expert views of risk and public perceptions. Ordered chronologically, it allows the reader to see the evolution of our understanding of such perceptions, from early studies identifying public misconceptions of risk to recent work that recognizes the importance and legitimacy of equity, trust, power and other value-laden issues underlying public concern.

New methods for assessing perceptions of risk are described, and the implications for regulation and public policy are discussed. In a new departure, the perceptions of adolescents are also examined. The issues covered include:

  • Societal risk taking
  • Decision-making in mental health law
  • Rating risks
  • Facts versus fears
  • Informing and educating the public about risk
  • Intuitive toxicology
  • Perceived risks and the politics of nuclear waste
  • Perceived risk, trust and democracy
  • Technological stigma.

This is an essential guide for everyone with an interest in the public perception of risk, including lawyers, policy makers, the business community and academics from the fields of public health and environment, psychology, economics, sociology, anthropology and political science.

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Research and Practice in Multiple Criteria Decision Making: Proceedings of the XIVth International Conference on Multiple Criteria Decision Making
by Yacov Y. Haimes and Ralph E. Steuer, Editors; May 2000; ISBN 3540672664
The subject area of the volume is multiple criteria decision making (MCDM), which is concerned with the methods and techniques by which multiple conflicting objectives can be formally incorporated into the management planning process. Constituting the selected proceedings of the most recent International Conference on Multiple Criteria Decision Making, the forty-five articles in the volume provide significant content on the latest in developments and new ideas taking place in theory and practice of the rapidly growing field of MCDM. 
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Risk Factor: How to Make Risk Managment Work for You in Strategic Planning and Enterprise
by Terry Carroll, Mark Webb and Mark Griffiths; October 2000; Take That Ltd. (TTL); ISBN 1873668376
This book is about risk. Specifically, it is about the biggest single risk factor in any organization - the people. Reading it will enable directors and senior management to understand all aspects of business risk, not just financial risk, and to delegate risk supervision with confidence.
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Risk Management
by Michel Crouhy, Dan Galai, and Robert Mark; October 2000; ISBN 0071357319
The book provides a comprehensive description and analysis of modern risk management, including the regulatory aspects, organizational issues, potential problem areas, and tools to control and manage the many different kinds of risks: market risk, credit risk, and operational risk. It also discusses: structuring and managing the risk management function in a firm; practical measurement issues in the field; risk management in both financial and non-financial institutions.
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Risk Management: Approaches for Fixed Income Markets
by Bennett W. Golub and Leo M. Tilman; June 2000; ISBN: 0471332119
Risk management plays an increasingly important role in the life of a financial institution. Valuable to anyone in both the asset management industry and academia, Risk Management applies the latest financial modeling techniques to the challenges of managing risk in fixed income markets. This work represents an intriguing blend of finance, economics, mathematics, and common sense and brings together a variety of approaches, including duration measures, principal components, value at risk, and hedge optimizations. Risk Management is written by two senior practitioners supporting the risk management function of a global money management firm.
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Risk Management: Challenge and Opportunity
by Michael Frenkel, Ulrich Hommel, and Markus Rudolf, Editors; January 2000; ISBN 354067134X
This book provides coverage of innovations in science of risk management. It covers corporate governance aspects of risk management and includes an analysis of the interaction between hedging and operating policies, the management of product liability risk from the regulator's perspective, and more. 
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Risk Management, Volumes I & II (The International Library of Management)
by Gerald Mars and David Weir, Editors; October 2000; ISBN 1855218496
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Social Trust and the Management of Risk
by George Cvetkovich and Ragnar E. Löfstedt, Editors; June 2000; ISBN 1853836044
Social trust is a crucial issue to many aspects of modern society. Policy makers continually aspire to winning it and corporations frequently run the risk of losing it. The ‘trust deficit’ raises vital questions and problems to which until recently there have been few answers or solutions.

Experts from both sides of the Atlantic explore the importance for trust of various influences, from individual perceptions to organizational systems, and consider the conditions involved in building or undermining trust. Se