Pandora's Risk : : Uncertainty at the Core of Finance / / Kent Osband.

Author of the acclaimed work Iceberg Risk: An Adventure in Portfolio Theory, Kent Osband argues that uncertainty is central rather than marginal to finance. Markets don't trade mainly on changes in risk. They trade on changes in beliefs about risk, and in the process, markets unite, stretch, an...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2011]
©2011
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
Series:Columbia Business School Publishing
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Physical Description:1 online resource (304 p.) :; 40 line drawings, 5 tables
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The Ultimate Confidence Game
  • 3. Great Expectations
  • 4. Sustainable Debt
  • 5. The Midas Touch
  • 6. Safety in Numbers
  • 7. When God Changes Dice
  • 8. Credit-ability
  • 9. Insecuritization
  • 10. Risks in Value-at-Risk
  • 11. Resizing Risks
  • 12. Conclusions
  • Appendix
  • References
  • Index