Resumen de Richard Evans. Eric Hobsbawm. Una vida en la historia, Buenos Aires, Crítica, 2021, 878 pgs.

Once a fairly esoteric subject, risk analysis and measurement has become a critical function for both portfolio managers and traders. Yet, there are many practical challenges in accurately measuring and analyzing risk. These range from the construction of accurate and up-to-date risk models to subtle issues in the interpretation of the results of these models. This article provides a detailed o...

For a variety of reasons, many bank and corporate finance executives are implementing enterprise risk management systems to better understand and manage the firm’s risks. Our objective is to provide tools that evaluate the accuracy of the output from these systems. Especially in markets where the risks are large and complex, such as energy firms, it is crucial to establish the accuracy of the r...

Cloud computing is heralded to be one of the most significant information technology developments in recent years. There is widespread agreement that the adoption of cloud resources and capabilities is poised for strong growth into the future. Nevertheless, there is paucity of research concerning the perceived risks that affect the adoption intentions of prospective organisational adopters. In ...

Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) is a process that manages all risks in an integrated, holistic fashion by controlling and coordinating offsetting risks across the enterprise. This research investigates whether the adoption of the ERM approach affects firms’ cost of equity capital. We restrict our analysis to the U.S. insurance industry to control for unobservable differences in business models...

In recent years, risk management and analysis has attracted a great deal of attention from both researchers and practitioners. Enterprise risk management has become an important topic in today’smore complex, interrelated global business environment, replete with threats from natural, political, economic, and technical sources. This survey and introductory article addresses computerized tools us...

Since the 1960s, occupational studies on workers with continuous microwave radiation exposures (radar, manufacturing, communications) in the Soviet Union have shown that RF radiation exposures below current limits represent a considerable risk potential. A comprehensive overview is given in the review of 878 scientific studies by Prof. Hecht, which he conducted on behalf of the German Federal I...

electronic  waste  or  e-waste  is  relatively  a  novel  addition  to  the  ever-growing  hazardous waste stream. it includes discarded electronic and electrical equipment. developing countries face enormous challenges which are related to the generation and management of e-waste which are either internally generated or imported illegally; india is no exception. however, the existing managemen...

The present paper introduces a comprehensive Transportation Security Risk Assessment Framework for assessing related risks and provides cohered contingency management procedures in interconnected, interdependent and heterogeneous transport networks. The proposed approach includes elements, methodological tools and approaches found in the literature, in addition to operational experience from th...

Enterprise risk management (ERM) has become an important topic in today’s more complex, interrelated global business environment, replete with threats from natural, political, economic, and technical sources. Banks especially face financial risks, as the news makes ever more apparent in 2008. This paper demonstrates support to risk management through validation of predictive scorecards for a la...