Doing Our Best: Optimization and the Management of Risk

Risk Analysis

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1326-1332

  Ben Haim, Yakov ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Disaster recovery; Equity premium puzzle; Financial investment; Info gap; Moral hazard; Optimizing; Robustness; Satisficing; Technological infrastructure; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

EID: 85027958408     PISSN: 02724332     EISSN: 15396924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1539-6924.2012.01818.x     Document Type: Note

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