New Additions to the Actuarial Profession's Libraries, September 2011
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Books
Actuarial education and profession
The case for working with your hands: or why office work is bad for us and fixing things feels good. - Crawford, Matthew. - Penguin, 2009. - 246 pages. - ISBN: 9780141047294. [No: 73677]
Climate change / Environment
The atlas of water : mapping the world's most critical resource. - Black, Maggie; King, Jannet. - 2nd ed. - Earthscan, 2009. - 128 pages. - ISBN: 9781844078271. [No: 45426]
Prosperity without growth? Economics for a finite planet. - Jackson, T. - Earthscan, 2009. - 276 pages. - ISBN: 9781849713238. [No: 73676]
Credit crunch and financial crises
Corporate governance failures: The role of institutional investors in the global financial crisis. - Hawley, James; Kamath, Shyam; Williams, Andrew. - University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011. - 344 pages. - ISBN: 9780812243147. [No: 73678]
Manias, panics and crashes: a history of financial crises. - Kindleberger, Charles P; Aliber, Robert Z. - 6th ed. - Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. - viii, 356 p pages. - ISBN: 9780230365353. [No: 45150]
Economics and finance
Dictionary of finance. - Collin, P H. - 2nd ed. - Peter Collin, 1999. - 344, [10] pages. - ISBN: 1-901659-30-5. [No: 44487]
Principles of Corporate Finance. - Brealey, Richard A; Myers, Stewart C; Allen, Franklin. - 10th ed. - McGraw-Hill Education, 2010. - 944 pages. - ISBN: 9780071314176. [No: 73679]
General insurance
Part VII Transfers a practical guide. - James, Dewi; Miles, Nick; Goodlud, Steve. - Run off & Restructuring, 2008. - 106 pages. [No: 73680]
Risk management
Financial enterprise risk management. - International Series on Actuarial Science. - Sweeting, Paul. - Cambridge University Press, 2011. - xii, 551 pages. - ISBN: 9780521111645. [No: 45449]
Introduction to credit risk modeling. - CRC Financial Mathematics Series. - Bluhm, Christian; Overbeck, Ludger; Wagner, Christop. - 2nd ed ed. - CRC Press, 2010. - xix, 384 pages. - ISBN: 9781584889922. [No: 72888]
Journals
Applied Mathematical Finance, vol. 18 (3-4) (2011)
- An affine two- factor heteroskedastic macro-finance term structure model. - Spreij, Peter; Veerman, Enno; Vlaar, Peter. [No: 45462]
- Characterization of the American put option using convexity. - Xie, Dejun; Edwards, David A; Schleiniger, Gilberto; Zhu, Qinghua. [No: 45463]
- Exchange options under jump-diffusion dynamics. - Cheang, Gerald H; Chiarella, Carl. [No: 45459]
- One-dimensional pricing of CPPI. - Paulot, Louis; Lacroze, Xavier. [No: 45457]
- Optimal asset allocation for passive investing with capital loss harvesting. - Ostrov, Daniel N; Wong, Thomas G. [No: 45461]
- The S&P 500 index as a Sato process travelling at the speed of the VIX. - Madan, Dilip B; Yor, Marc. [No: 45458]
- The tick-by- tick dynamical consistency of price impact in limit order books. - Challet, Damien. [No: 45456]
- Valuation of two-factor interest rate contingent claims using Green's theorem. - Sorwar, Ghulam; Barone-Adesi, Giovanni. [No: 45460]
Journal of Risk Management in Financial Institutions. - Henry Stewart Publications. [No: 45447]. 2007-current issue available online. New journal subscription. Access through your Athens account. (Please contact the library with your ARN number if you need to set up an Athens account)
Journal of Social Policy, vol. 40 (4) (2011)
- Antipoverty programmes in Venezuela. - Daguerre, Anne. [No: 45454]
- Child disability and the dynamics of family poverty, hardship and financial strain: evidence from the UK. - Shahtahmasebi, Said; Emerson, Eric; Berridge, Damon; Lancaster, Gillian. [No: 45450]
- The employment effects of recession on couples in the UK: women's and household employment prospects and partners’ job loss. - Harkness, Susan; Evans, Martin. [No: 45451]
- Exit Bismarck, enter Dualism? assessing contemporary German labour market policy. - Clasen, Jochen; Goerne, Alexander. [No: 45452]
- Quasi-markets and service delivery flexibility following a decade of employment assistance reform in Australia. - Considine, Mark; Lewis, Jenny M; O'Sullivan, Siobhan. [No: 45453]