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OECD. - 2022 - 1st ed.

This publication takes stock of the growing socio-economic dependence of our modern societies on space assets, and the general threats to space-based infrastructure from debris in particular. Notably, it provides fresh insights into the value of space-based infrastructure and the potential costs...

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Risky Behavior among Youths : An Economic Analysis

Gruber, Jonathan - 2001

Every day young people engage in risky behaviors that affect not only their immediate well-being but their long-term health and safety. These well-honed essays apply diverse economic analyses to a wide range of unsafe activities, including teen drinking and driving, smoking, drug use,...

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Corporate Risks and Leadership : What Every Executive Should Know about Risks, Ethics, Compliance, and Human Resources

Mariscotti, Eduardo Esteban - 2020

Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Section 1 Culture -- 1 Ethics and Values -- 1.1 ETHICS AND MORAL CONSCIENCE -- 1.2 VIRTUES AND VALUES -- 1.3 JUSTICE -- 1.4 COOPERATION AND TRUST -- 1.5 HONESTY AND INTEGRITY -- 2 Culture and Ethics -- 3 Reputation and Ethics -- 4 Theories on Ethics -- 5...

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Life Cycle Risks and the Politics of the Welfare State

Jensen, Carsten - 2019

Cover -- Title Page -- Colophon -- Contents -- Foreword -- Chapter 1 -- Modernization, human biology, and a tale of two domains -- Chapter 2 -- The labor market bias of the welfare state literature -- Modernization and the origins of thewelfare state literature -- Power resources and political...

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Life Annuity Products and Their Guarantees

OECD. - 2016

Chapter 1. What is an annuity product? Chapter 2. Overview of the different types of annuity products Chapter 3. The risks presented by annuity products and how they are managed Chapter 4. Drivers of annuity product availability, design and sustainability Chapter 5. Ensuring suitable products...

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Business of Safety : Managing Occupational and Industrial Risks : Textbook

Vaidogas, Egidijus Rytas - 2010

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Part I. THE PROBLEM OF SAFETY -- 1 Safety versus business profit -- 1.1 The challenge of safety -- 1.2 Financial impact of accidents upon company profits -- 1.3 Business benefits of good safety performance -- 1.4 Review questions and exercises -- 2 Safety...

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Managing Project Uncertainty.

Cleden, David - 2017

-edge thinking from a variety of disciplines and shows how these techniques can be used to conquer uncertainty in projects.The book … addresses five key questions: Why is there uncertainty in projects? How do you spot the symptoms of uncertainty, preferably at … an early stage? What can be done to avoid uncertainty? What strategies can be used to deal with project uncertainty? How …

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The Entrepreneurial Adventure : Embracing Risk, Change, and Uncertainty

James, David - 2015

: Understanding the Norms of Uncertainty, Risk, and Relentless Change -- Chapter 4: Key Entrepreneurial Skills and Competencies …

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Extreme Financial Risks and Asset Allocation.

Le Courtois Olivier Walter Christian, - 2014

Key Features:This book offers an excellent synthesis of the academic literature in a clear, ordered, and intuitive wayThe continuous-time theory of the choice of portfolio is exposed with particular care when asset dynamics are modeled with processes admitting a jump component. This is a...

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The Analytics of Risk Model Validation.

Christodoulakis, George - 2007

-- Abstract -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Measures of discriminatory power -- 3. Uncertainty in credit risk model validation -- 4 …

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