Risk Analysis in Theory and Practice
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Risk Analysis in Theory and Practice

  1. 247 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Risk Analysis in Theory and Practice

About this book

The objective of Risk Analysis in Theory and Practice is to present this analytical framework and to illustrate how it can be used in the investigation of economic decisions under risk. In a sense, the economics of risk is a difficult subject: it involves understanding human decisions in the absence of perfect information. How do we make decisions when we do not know some of events affecting us? The complexities of our uncertain world and of how humans obtain and process information make this difficult. In spite of these difficulties, much progress has been made. First, probability theory is the corner stone of risk assessment. This allows us to measure risk in a fashion that can be communicated among decision makers or researchers. Second, risk preferences are now better understood. This provides useful insights into the economic rationality of decision making under uncertainty. Third, over the last decades, good insights have been developed about the value of information. This helps better understand the role of information in human decision making and this book provides a systematic treatment of these issues in the context of both private and public decisions under uncertainty. - Balanced treatment of conceptual models and applied analysis - Considers both private and public decisions under uncertainty - Website presents application exercises in Excel

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Information

Year
2004
Print ISBN
9780121706210
eBook ISBN
9780080516332

Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Risk Analysis in Theory and Practice
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. Chapter 1. Introduction
  6. Chapter 2. The Measurement of Risk
  7. Chapter 3. The Expected Utility Model
  8. Chapter 4. The Nature of Risk Preferences
  9. Chapter 5. Stochastic Dominance
  10. Chapter 6. Mean-Variance Analysis
  11. Chapter 7. Alternative Models of Risk Behavior
  12. Chapter 8. Production Decisions Under Risk
  13. Chapter 9. Portfolio Selection
  14. Chapter 10. Dynamic Decisions Under Risk
  15. Chapter 11. Contract and Policy Design Under Risk
  16. Chapter 12. Contract and Policy Design Under Risk: Applications
  17. Chapter 13. Market Stabilization
  18. Appendix A: Probability and Statistics
  19. Appendix B: Optimization
  20. Index