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Strategic Risk Taking: A Framework for Risk Management

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Wharton School Publishing

Acknowledgments

About the Author

A Roadmap for Understanding Risk

Chapters: 1-4 The Economists’ View of Risk Aversion and the Behavioral Response

Ch. 1. What Is Risk?

Ch. 2. Why Do We Care About Risk?

The Duality of Risk

I Am Rich, But Am I Happy? Utility and Wealth

The St. Petersburg Paradox and Expected Utility: The Bernoulli Contribution

Mathematics Meets Economics: Von Neumann and Morgenstern

The Gambling Exception?

Small Versus Large Gambles

Measuring Risk Aversion

Consequences of Views on Risk

Appendix Utility Functions and Risk Aversion Coefficients

Ch. 3. What Do We Think About Risk?

Ch. 4. How Do We Measure Risk?

Appendix 1. Mean-Variance Framework and the CAPM

Appendix 2. Derivation of the Arbitrage Pricing Model

Chapters: 5-8 Risk Assessment: Tools and Techniques

Chapters: 9-12 Risk Management: The Big Picture

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