1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910451495203321

Autore

Los Cornelis Albertus <1951, >

Titolo

Financial market risk : measurement and analysis / / ornelis A. Los

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2003

ISBN

0-429-24222-0

1-134-46932-2

1-280-34798-8

9786610347988

0-203-98763-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (493 p.)

Collana

Routledge international studies in money and banking ; ; 24

Disciplina

332/.01/5195

Soggetti

Hedging (Finance)

Risk management

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Introduction; 1 Risk  asset class horizon and time; 2 Competing financial market hypotheses; 3 Stable scaling distributions in finance; 4 Persistence of financial risk; 5 Frequency analysis of financial risk; 6 Fourier time frequency analysis of risk; 7 Wavelet time scale analysis of risk; 8 Multiresolution analysis of local risk; 9 Chaos  nonunique equilibria processes; 10 Measuring term structure dynamics; 11 Simulation of financial turbulence; 12 Managing VaR and extreme values; Appendix A original scaling in financial economics

Appendix B S P500 daily closing prices for 1988Index

Sommario/riassunto

This new book uses advanced signal processing technology to measure and analyze risk phenomena of the financial markets. It explains how to scientifically measure, analyze and manage non-stationarity and long-term time dependence (long memory) of financial market returns. It studies, in particular, financial crises in persistent financial markets, such as stock, bond and real estate market, and turbulence in antipersistent financial markets, such as anchor currency markets. It



uses Windowed Fourier and Wavelet Multiresolution Analysis to measure the degrees of persistence of these complex mark

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910457443203321

Autore

Montrie Chad

Titolo

A people's history of environmentalism in the United States [[electronic resource] /] / Chad Montrie

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Continuum, 2011

ISBN

0-8264-5572-7

1-283-30781-2

9786613307811

1-4411-7545-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (201 p.)

Disciplina

333.720973

363.7/03/0973

Soggetti

Environmentalism - United States - History

Environmental policy - United States - History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Shaking Up What, When, and Why; 1 Puritan to Yankee Redux: Farming, Fishing, and Our Very Own Dark, Satanic Mills; 2 Why "Game Wardens" Carry Guns and Interpretive Rangers Dress like Soldiers: Class Conflict in Forests and Parks; 3 Missionaries Find the Urban Jungle: Sanitation and Worker Health and Safety; 4 Green Relief and Recovery: By Which Working People and Nature Get a New Deal; 5 A Popular Crusade: Organized Labor Takes the Lead against Pollution

6 To Stir Up Dissent and Create Turmoil: Inventing Environmental JusticeConclusion: Rethinking Environmentalism, Past, and Present; Bibliographic Essay: A Few Books and Articles That Changed the Way We Think about Class and the History of Environmentalism in the



United States; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book offers a fresh and innovative account of the history of environmentalism in the United States, challenging the dominant narrative in the field. In the widely-held version of events, the US environmental movement was born with the publication of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring in 1962 and was driven by the increased leisure and wealth of an educated middle class. Chad Montrie's telling moves the origins of environmentalism much further back in time and attributes the growth of environmental awareness to working people and their families. From the antebellum era to the end of the twentie

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910467322503321

Titolo

MeXicana fashions : politics, self-adornment, and identity construction / / edited by Aída Hurtado and Norma E. Cantú

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Austin : , : University of Texas Press, , 2020

ISBN

1-4773-1960-3

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (337 pages)

Disciplina

305.48/86872073

Soggetti

Mexican American women - Clothing

Mexican American women - Ethnic identity

Clothing and dress - Political aspects - United States

Clothing and dress - Social aspects - United States

Fashion - Social aspects - United States

Group identity - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Wearing identity : Chicanas and huipiles / Norma E. Cantú -- Con el huipil en la mente : the metamorphosis of a Chicana / Josie Méndez-Negrete -- "Rebozos, huipiles, y ¿Qué?" : Chicana self-fashioning in the academy / Micaela Díaz-Sánchez -- Por la facha y por el traje, se conoce al personaje : tales about attire as resistance and performativity



in a Chicana's life trajectory / Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs -- A familial legacy of Mexicana style / Domino Renee Perez -- Buying the dream : relating "traditional" dress to consumer practices within US quinceañeras / Rachel Valentina González-Martin -- Visuality, corporality, and power / Aída Hurtado -- Black, brown, and fa(t)shionable : the role of fat women of color in the rise of body positivity / Jade D. Petermon -- Fashioning decolonial optics : Days of the Dead, Walking Altars, and Calavera Fashion Shows in Latina/o Los Angeles / Laura Pérez -- "Fierce and fearless" : dress and identity in Rigoberto González's The Mariposa Club / Sonia Alejandra Rodríguez -- Lydia Mendoza, "Reina de la Música Tejana" : self-stylizing Mexicanidad through china poblana in the US-Mexico borderlands / Marci R. McMahon -- (Ad)dressing Chicana/Latina femininities : consumption, labor, and the cultural politics of style in Latina fashion / Stacy I. Macías -- Urban Xican/X-indigenous fashion show artivism : experimental ethnographies and perform-antics in three actos / Chela Sandoval, Amber Rose González, and Felicia Montes.