Includes bibliographical references and index.

Risk : a decision maker's perspective / Clive W.J. Granger -- Mild vs. wild randomness : focusing on those risks that matter / Benoit B. Mandelbrot and Nassim Nicholas Taleb -- The term structure of risk, the role of known and unknown risks, and nonstationary distributions / Riccardo Colacito and Robert F. Engle -- Crisis and noncrisis risk in financial markets : a unified approach to risk management / Robert H. Litzenberger and David M. Modest -- What we know, don't know, and can't know about bank risk : a view from the trenches / Andrew Kuritzkes and Til Schuermann -- Real estate through the ages : the known, the unknown, and the unknowable / Ashok Bardhan and Robert H. Edelstein -- Reflections on decision-making under uncertainty / Paul R. Kleindorfer -- On the role of insurance brokers in resolving the known, the unknown, and the unknowable / Neil A. Doherty and Alexander Muermann -- Insuring against catastrophes / Howard Kunreuther and Mark V. Pauly -- Managing increased capital markets intensity : the chief financial officer's role in navigating the known, the unknown, and the unknowable / Charles N. Bralver and Daniel Borge -- The role of corporate governance in coping with risk and unknowns / Kenneth E. Scott -- Domestic banking problems / Charles A.E. Goodhart -- Crisis management : the known, the unknown, and the unknowable / Donald L. Kohn -- Investing in the unknown and unknowable / Richard J. Zeckhauser.

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