Managing financial risks : from global to local
by
 
Clark, Gordon L.

Title
: 
Managing financial risks : from global to local

Author
: 
Clark, Gordon L.

ISBN
: 
9780199557431

Publication Information
: 
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2009.

Physical Description
: 
xxiii, 325 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Contents
: 
1. The changing political geography of financial crisis management / Louis W. Pauly -- 2. Financial governance in the neo-liberal era / Gary Dymski -- 3. Risk management and institutional investors / Gordon L. Clark -- 4. The practicalities of being inaccurate : steps toward the social geography of financial risk management / Yuval Millo and Donald MacKenzie -- 5. Learning to cope with uncertainty : on the spatial distributions of financial innovation and its fallout / Ewald Engelen -- 6. The role of proximity in secondary equity markets / Dariusz Wojcik -- 7. Infrastructure investment and the management of risk / Phillip O'Neill -- 8. Balancing risk and return in urban investing / Lisa A. Hageman and Tessa Hebb -- 9. Managing financial risks in urban environments / Samuel Randalls -- 10. Managing financial risks : the strange case of housing / Susan J. Smith -- 11. Gender, risk, and occupational pensions / Kendra Strauss -- 12. Consumer credit, self-discipline, and risk management / Paul Langley.

Abstract
: 
"This book brings together a group of leading scholars from a range of disciplines to formulate a more holistic understanding of financial risk by rooting it in different environments, spatial scales, and disciplines. The result is an all-encompassing exposition of current and future financial risk management practices, possibilities, and problems."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject Term
: 
Financial risk management.
 
Economic geography.

Added Author
: 
Clark, Gordon L.
 
Dixon, Adam D.
 
Monk, Ashby H. B. (Ashby Henry Benning), 1976-


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