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  • Single Market Europe: Opportunities and Challenges for Business 

    Makridakis, Spyros (1991)
    A thorough and practical look at how to exploit the opportunities presented by the integration of Europe into a single market. Details how the the single market environment will affect key business functions, from overall ...

  • Dance with Chance: Making Luck Work for You 

    Makridakis, Spyros; Hogarth, Robin M.; Gaba, Anil (Oneworld Publications, 2009)
    Written by true experts. Informative yet so much fun to read!" Nassim Nicholas Taleb- author of The Black Swan "Easy-to-digest and highly competent. If everyone were to read this book, the world would become a more enlightened ...

  • A Probabilistic Approach to Worst Case Scenarios 

    Barone-Adesi, Giovanni; Bourgoin, Frederick; Giannopoulos, Kostas (1997)
    Value at Risk (VaR) is increasingly popular as a management and regulatory tool. To further its acceptance it is necessary to assess its reliability under conditions likely to be encountered in financial markets. A logical ...

  • A Simplified Approach to the Conditional Estimation of Value at Risk (VAR) 

    Barone-Adesi, Giovanni; Giannopoulos, Kostas (1997)
    Emerging risk-management techniques use Value at Risk (VAR) to assess the market risk of a portfolio. We propose a relative simple method to estimate VAR conditionallyto reflect new information about the volatility of ...