During the 1990s Francis Fukuyama announced the end of history. The 2000s showed how it is an illusion to imagine a peaceful world without conflict. In this book, the authors explore how six major constraints are set to fix the trajectory of the global economy. Three of them are new: the aging...

This is the first book combining research on the Global Environment, Catastrophic Risks and Economic Theory and Policy. Modern economic theory originated in the middle of the twentieth century when industrial expansion coupled with population growth led to a voracious use of natural resources...

Past cycles of sovereign lending and default suggest that debt crises will recur at some point. This book shows why investors should reckon with similar credit events in the future. Surveying the sovereign bond market, the author provides investors with a useful toolkit for analyzing sovereign...

Vorwort -- 1.Fracking, Hydraulic Fracturing - Fluch oder Segen -- 2. Weltkarte, wo auf der Welt die größten Resourcen lagern (mit Material von Advances Resources International -- 3. Was bedeutet Fracking für die einzelnen Volkswirtschaften der potentiellen Fördergebiete? -- 4. Die...

Vorwort -- 1.Fracking, Hydraulic Fracturing - Fluch oder Segen -- 2. Weltkarte, wo auf der Welt die größten Resourcen lagern (mit Material von Advances Resources International -- 3. Was bedeutet Fracking für die einzelnen Volkswirtschaften der potentiellen Fördergebiete? -- 4. Die...

In this book Simona Roccioletti reviews several valuable studies about risk measures and their properties; in particular she studies the new (and heavily discussed) property of "Elicitability" of a risk measure. More important, she investigates the issue related to the backtesting of Expected...

Grundlagen der Untersuchung -- Entwicklung eines Geschäftsrisikoverständnisses -- Untersuchung der gesetzlichen Prüfungsnormen vor dem Hintergrund eines geschäftsrisikoorientierten Prüfungsprozesses -- Untersuchung ausgewählter berufsständischer Verlautbarungen hinsichtlich der...