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UNINA9910458691703321 |
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Chavas Jean-Paul |
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Risk analysis in theory and practice [[electronic resource] /] / Jean-Paul Chavas |
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Amsterdam ; ; Boston, : Elsevier/Butterworth Heinemann |
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San Diego, Calif., : Elsevier Academic Press, c2004 |
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1-281-02822-3 |
9786611028220 |
0-08-051633-5 |
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1 online resource (257 p.) |
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Academic Press advanced finance series |
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Risk - Econometric models |
Uncertainty - Econometric models |
Decision making - Econometric models |
Electronic books. |
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Monografia |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-235) and index. |
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Front Cover; Risk Analysis in Theory and Practice; Copyright Page; Contents; Chapter 1. Introduction; Chapter 2. The Measurement of Risk; Chapter 3. The Expected Utility Model; Chapter 4. The Nature of Risk Preferences; Chapter 5. Stochastic Dominance; Chapter 6. Mean-Variance Analysis; Chapter 7. Alternative Models of Risk Behavior; Chapter 8. Production Decisions Under Risk; Chapter 9. Portfolio Selection; Chapter 10. Dynamic Decisions Under Risk; Chapter 11. Contract and Policy Design Under Risk; Chapter 12. Contract and Policy Design Under Risk: Applications |
Chapter 13. Market StabilizationAppendix A: Probability and Statistics; Appendix B: Optimization; Index |
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The objective of this book is to present this analytical framework and to illustrate how it can be used in the investigation of economic decisions under risk. In a sense, the economics of risk is a difficult subject: it involves understanding human decisions in the absence of perfect information. How do we make decisions when we do not know some of events affecting us? The complexities of our uncertain world and of |
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how humans obtain and process information make this difficult. In spite of these difficulties, much progress has been made. First, probability theory is the corner stone of risk ass |
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UNINA9910480970103321 |
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Autore |
Rafter Kevin |
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Irish Journalism Before Independence : More a disease than a profession |
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Oxford : , : Manchester University Press, , 2016 |
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Baltimore, Md. : , : Project MUSE, , 2020 |
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©2016 |
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1 online resource (257 pages) |
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Journalism |
Journalism - Ireland - History - 20th century |
Journalism - Ireland - History - 19th century |
History |
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Ireland |
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14. 'The prose of logic and of scorn': Arthur Griffith and Sinn Fein,1906-1914: Ciara Meehan15. From the 'Freeman's General' to the 'dully expressed': James Joyce and journalism: Terence Killeen; 16. Truce to Treaty: Irish journalists and the 1920-21 peace process: Ian Kenneally; Index. |
7. E.J. Dillon:from our special correspondent: Kevin Rafter8. The Irishness of Francis McCullagh: John Horgan ; 9. Patriotism, professionalism and the press: the Chicago press and Irish journalists, 1875-1900: Gillian O'Brien; 10. O'Brennan abroad: an Irish editor in London and America: Anthony McNicholas; 11. Newspapers, journalists and the early years of the Gaelic Athletic Association: Paul Rouse; 12. Newspapers, journals and the Irish revival: Regina Uí Chollatáin; 13. |
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Arthur Griffith and the Freeman's Journal: Felix M. Larkin. |
Irish journalism before independence: More a disease than a profession; Half Title Page ; Title Page ; Copyright; Contents; Notes on contributors; Preface: James Curran ; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Kevin Rafter; 1. Journalism in Ireland: the evolution of a discipline: Mark O'Brien; 2. How journalism became a profession: Michael Foley; 3. Loyalty and Repeal: the Nation, 1842-46: M.L. Brillman ; 4. Keeping an eye on the Tsar: Frederick Potter and the Skibbereen Eagle: Matthew Potter; 5. The leader writer: James Woulfe Flanagan: Maurice Walsh; 6. Mr Russell of The Times: Peter Murtagh. |
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They reported wars, outraged monarchs and promoted the case for their country's freedom. The pages of Irish Journalism Before Independence: More a Disease than a Profession are filled with the remarkable stories of reporters, proprietors and propagandists. Sixteen leading writers celebrate the emergence of Irish Journalism in this original and engaging volume. These leading media academics, historians and scholars join in what is a festschrift travelling the long Irish nineteenth century to 1922. Their stories, narratives and histories illustrate the emergence of Irish journalism chronicling t. |
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