Goulielmos, Alexandros M. - In: Spoudai : journal of economics and business 65 (2015) 1/2, pp. 67-86
The paper deals with maritime risk, which we consider important, no doubt, for ship-owners acting in volatile markets …. Traditionally, risk is measured by "standard deviation". Other risk measures like "excess kurtosis", "excess skewness", "long …-term dependence" and the "catastrophe propensity" were ignored. Risk in 1900 was based on the mathematical laws of Chance and …