Economic and Financial Decisions under Risk
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| Rating | : | 4.53 (688 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0691122156 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 248 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-09-30 |
| Language | : | English |
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Winner of the 2007 Kulp-Wright Book Award, American Risk and Insurance Association"This delightful little book is aimed at advanced undergraduate and first year graduate students who need to learn about modeling risk. It contains deep and insightful discussions about all the topics under consideration."--Tapen Sinha, Journal of Risk and Insurance
Garbage This book is full of awkward wording and typos while lack of necessary details.Buy it only if you want to upset yourself.. Really poorly written book. Very theoretical chapters with few Tyler Really poorly written book. Very theoretical chapters with few numerical examples, then the authors expect the reader to be able to compute answers in the exercises. No answer key or solution manual, and no answers in the back of the book, so there's no way for the reader to be able to check any work. Worthless textbook for anybody that doesn't already know the material.
Adjunct Professor at the University of Konstanz, and a Research Fellow at CESifo. Christian Gollier is Professor of Economics at the University of Toulouse and a Research Fellow at CESifo, a joint venture of the University of Munich's Center for Economic Studies (CES) and Germany's Ifo Institute. Samuelson Award. The three authors are each a past editor of the "Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance Theory," and they have previousl
This book represents a concise summary of basic multiperiod decision-making under risk. They then apply these concepts to insurance decisions and portfolio choice in a one-period model. Each chapter concludes with a discussion of the relevant literature and a set of problems. The authors start with the fundamentals of risk measurement and risk aversion. Its detailed coverage of a broad range of topics is ideally suited for use in advanced undergraduate and introductory graduate courses either as a self-contained text, or the introductory chapters combined with a selection of later chapters can repr