1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910457330503321

Titolo

Across a great divide [[electronic resource] ] : continuity and change in native North American societies, 1400-1900 / / edited by Laura L. Scheiber and Mark D. Mitchell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tucson, : University of Arizona Press, c2010

ISBN

1-299-19152-5

0-8165-0228-5

Descrizione fisica

ix, 342 p. : ill., maps

Collana

Amerind studies in archaeology ; ; 4

Altri autori (Persone)

ScheiberLaura L

MitchellMark D

Disciplina

305.897

Soggetti

Indians of North America - Social conditions

Indians of North America - Colonization - Social aspects

Indians of North America - Cultural assimilation

Social archaeology - North America

Social change - North America

Electronic books.

North America Colonization Social aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Crossing divides : archaeology as long-term history / Mark D. Mitchell and Laura L. Scheiber -- Agency and practice in Apalachee Province / John F. Scarry -- Long-term history, positionality, contingency, hybridity : does rethinking indigenous history reframe the Jamestown colony? / Jeffrey L. Hantman -- When moral economies and capitalism meet : Creek factionalism and the colonial southeastern frontier / Cameron B. Wesson -- Not just "one site against the world" : Seneca Iroquois intercommunity connections and autonomy, 1550-1779 / Kurt A. Jordan -- A prophet has arisen : the archaeology of nativism among the nineteenth-century Algonquin peoples of Illinois / Mark J. Wagner -- Mountain Shoshone technological transitions across the great divide / Laura L. Scheiber and Judson Byrd Finley -- The plains hide trade : French impact on Wichita technology and society / Susan C. Vehik ... [et al.] -- "Like butterflies on a mounting board" : Pueblo mobility and



demography before 1825 / Jeremy Kulisheck -- The Dine at the edge of history : Navajo ethnogenesis in the northern Southwest, 1500-1750 / Richard H. Wilshusen -- A cross-cultural study of colonialism and indigenous foodways in western North America / Anthony P. Graesch, Julienne Bernard, and Anna C. Noah -- Identity collectives and religious colonialism in coastal western Alaska / Liam Frink -- Crossing, bridging, and transgressing divides in the study of native North America / Stephen W. Silliman.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910462259703321

Autore

Taleb Nassim Nicholas <1960->

Titolo

A new heuristic measure of fragility and tail risks [[electronic resource] ] : application to stress testing / / Nassim N. Taleb ... [et al.]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C., : International Monetary Fund, c2012

ISBN

1-4755-7073-2

1-4755-1497-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (25 p.)

Collana

IMF working paper ; ; WP/12/216

Soggetti

Heuristic

Financial crises

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.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; I. Introduction; II. Review of Concepts to Assess Fragility; A. The Current State of Stress Testing; B. A Simple Heuristic to Detect Fragility; Figures; 1. Why the Concave is Hurt by Tail Events; C. How Can the Simple Heuristic Enhance Stress Tests?; III. The Heuristic Applied to the Outcome of Stress Tests; A. Purpose for the Use of the Heuristic; 2. Illustration of the Use of the Heuristic; 3. Fragile and Antifragile Outcomes of Stress Tests; B. Case Study I: The Simple Heuristic Applied to Bank Stress Tests; Tables

1. The Heuristic Applied to the Outcome of Macroeconomic Stress Tests for the Largest U.S. BanksC. Case Study II: The Simple Heuristic Applied to Public Debt; 2. Overall Fragility of Banks; 3. Change in Net Debt Under Various Scenarios; IV. How to Apply the Simple Heuristic in IMF



Stress Tests; 4. Illustration of Debt Dynamics Under Various Scenarios; 5. The Simple Heuristic as an Integral Part of Stress Test Frameworks; V. Conclusion; Appendices; I. Details on Macroeconomic Bank Stress Test; II. Details on Public Debt Stress Test; References

Sommario/riassunto

This paper presents a simple heuristic measure of tail risk, which is applied to individual bank stress tests and to public debt. Stress testing can be seen as a first order test of the level of potential negative outcomes in response to tail shocks. However, the results of stress testing can be misleading in the presence of model error and the uncertainty attending parameters and their estimation. The heuristic can be seen as a second order stress test to detect nonlinearities in the tails that can lead to fragility, i.e., provide additional information on the robustness of stress tests.  It