Today women are still struggling to climb the corporate ladder. While existing gender studies have focused on individual workers or C-suite executives, why men climb the corporate ladder faster than women remains a mystery. To fill this void in the literature, we explore gender differences and...

Risk Adjusted Return On Capital (RAROC) is a loan-pricing criterion that has become increasingly prevalent in the banking industry since the 1990s. Under RAROC, a bank sets the loan term such that a certain rate of return is achieved on the regulatory capital required by the Basel capital...

Banks worldwide are required to hold a certain amount of regulatory capital to cushion against loans' unexpected losses. Currently, there are two widely adopted approaches in calculating regulatory capital: the standardized approach (the amount of regulatory capital equals to a certain...

Introduction -- Railroad Transportation of Hazardous Materials: Models for Risk Assessment & Management -- Operations Research Models for Global Route Planning in Hazardous Materials Transportation -- The Effect of Weather Systems in Hazmat Transportation Modeling -- Value-at-Risk and...

This handbook provides sophisticated models for the study and analysis of activities involving the transportation of hazardous materials: risk assessment, shipment and route planning, decisions on location and emergency planning for terrorist attacks.