"Social, economic, and technological megatrends are giving Japan its best chance at economic recovery in a generation. Just as entrepreneurship created Japan's post-war economic miracle, it will take a new generation of entrepreneurs to propel revival. At present, Japan suffers one of the lowest...

The purpose of this paper is to briefly discuss some important current questions and problems related to the use of scoring rules (SRs) both in connection with the actual assessment of probabilities and with the evaluation of probability forecasts and probability assessors. With regard to the...

This paper focuses on the US Billion-dollar Weather/Climate Disaster report by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Climatic Data Center. The current methodology for the production of this loss dataset is described, highlighting its strengths and limitations including...