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  • 1
    UID:
    b3kat_BV048222851
    Format: 1 Online-Ressource (453 pages)
    ISBN: 9783030388584
    Series Statement: Palgrave Studies in Sustainable Business in Association with Future Earth Ser
    Note: Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources , Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Emerging Risks: An Overview -- Part I: Ecological Risks -- Part II: Societal Risks -- Part III: Technological Risks -- Summary -- References -- Part I: Ecological Risks -- Chapter 2: Climate Change: Macroeconomic Impact and Implications for Monetary Policy -- Introduction: Why Central Banks Care About Climate Change -- Climate Change Risks -- Climate Change and the Macroeconomy: The Transmission Channels -- Implications of Climate Change for Monetary Policy: A Summary -- Physical Risks, Macroeconomic Impacts and Implications for Monetary Policy -- Transition Risks, Macroeconomic Impacts and Monetary Policy -- Implications for the Analytical Framework of Monetary Policy Authorities -- Interactions Between Macroeconomic and Financial Climate Shocks -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3: Global Warming and Extreme Weather Investment Risks -- Introduction -- Global Warming and Hurricane Damage -- The State of the Climate Sciences -- Intensity and Frequency of Tropical Cyclones -- Precipitation -- Storm Surge Risk -- Floods, Droughts and Heat Waves -- Climate Change Denial -- Who Are the Emitters? -- What Would the Financial Damage Be? -- Critique -- Legal Aspects -- How Should Investors React? -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4: Mapping Out When and Where Climate Risk Becomes a Credit Risk -- Introduction -- Identifying Transition Risk -- US Coal Mining Sector Example -- Transmission Channels -- Sector Prioritisation -- Scenario Analysis, Sensitivity Analysis, Stress Testing -- Mapping Physical Risk -- Climate Data Applicability -- Dealing with Both Events and Trends -- The Case of the California Wildfires -- Physical Risk Mitigation -- Conclusion -- References , Chapter 5: Designing Insurance Against Extreme Weather Risk: The Case of HuRLOs -- Introduction -- Hurricane Risk Landfall Options -- A Simulation Experiment -- Assumptions -- General Results from the Simulations -- An Illustrative Example -- Computational Considerations -- Recommendations, and Public Policy Implications -- Conclusion -- Appendix 1: List of Parameters and Variables -- Appendix 2: Hurricane Landfall Probabilities in the United States -- Appendix 3: Price Updating Algorithm -- Appendix 4: Computation of the Outcome Probabilities -- Appendix 5: Computation of Marginal Impact -- Appendix 6: Simulation Algorithm -- References -- Chapter 6: The Evolving Risk Management Opportunity and Thinking Sustainability First -- Introduction -- Evolving Concepts -- Evolving Need to Clarify Fiduciary Duty -- Evolution of Material Issues and Scenario Analysis -- Evolving Responsibilities for Executives and Decision-Makers: Change Management -- Evolving Realities -- Examples of Evolving Issues Transforming Risk Management -- Climate Change -- Diversity and Inclusion -- Cybersecurity -- Presence of the Sustainable Development Goals -- The Evolution of Support for ESG-Sustainability -- Examples of Task Forces Influencing the Evolution -- Development of a Green Taxonomy of Opportunities -- Educational Needs to Ensure a Transition and Evolution -- Conclusion -- References -- Part II: Societal Risks -- Chapter 7: Terrorism and Trading: Differential Equity and Bond Market Responses During Violent Elections -- Introduction -- Efficient Markets, Information Flow, and Risk -- The Credit Ratings Process and Country Risk -- Pakistan and the 2013 Election -- Data on Electoral Violence -- Discussion -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 8: The Effect of Corporate Tax Avoidance on Society -- Introduction -- Tax Avoidance Schemes: Elements and Participants -- Overview , Intermediaries -- Transfer of Tangibles -- Tariffs -- Transfer of Intangibles -- Dependence on Valuations of Intellectual Property -- Places Involved in Tax Avoidance -- Classification of Places Involved in Tax Avoidance -- Sales Taxes as a Special Case -- Actions to Mitigate the Tax Avoidance Issues Raised -- Overview -- Taxation of IP Transfers by Royalty -- OECD Efforts -- Identifying Tax Havens -- Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) -- European Efforts -- Pressure on British Overseas Territories (BOT) -- Pressure on European Countries -- Apportionment of Revenues -- Digital Taxes -- Brexit -- Openness -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 9: Planning for the Carbon Crisis: Reimagining the Power of the US Central Bank and Financial Institutions to Avert a Twenty-First-Century Climate and Financial Disaster -- Introduction -- Buckling Up for the 2020s (and the Potential Next Financial Crisis) -- The Missing Signs of Fossil Fuel Stranded Assets -- The Systemic Nature of the Carbon Bubble -- Harnessing the Federal Reserve's Power -- The Federal Reserve's Role in US Financial Markets -- The Need for Climate-related Risks in Individual and Macro-prudential Supervision -- Plan to Resolve Failing Energy Companies -- A Re-envisioned Financial System -- Green Investment Bank -- Public Banks -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 10: Economic Risks from Policy Pressures in Montreal's Real Estate Market -- Introduction -- Drivers of Real Estate Economic Growth in Montreal -- Emerging Policies Impacting Real Estate Growth -- Case Study: New Development Project in Montreal Southwest -- Discussion -- Appendix 1: Affordable Units∗ -- References -- Chapter 11: Climate Change and Reputation in the Financial Services Sector -- Rising Relevance of Reputation -- Relevance -- Definition of Reputation -- Differentiation , New Reputation Dimension for Financial Services -- Environmental Change -- Social Pressure -- Governance Transformation -- Necessity to Integrate Climate Change to Stay Relevant -- New Business Implications -- Strategic Considerations -- Tactical Affirmation -- Perceived Reputation by Stakeholders -- Availability of Information -- Classification of Information -- Usability of Information -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 12: Financial Risk Management in the Anthropocene Age -- Introduction -- The Risks from Climate Change -- The Markets for Pollution Permits -- Mitigation Lessons from SO2 Market -- How Does One Go About Creating Such Markets? -- CO2 Markets -- Compulsory and Voluntary Markets for CO2 -- Compulsory Market: EU ETS -- Voluntary Market: Chicago Carbon Exchange -- Adaptation, Mitigation, and Insurance -- Conclusion -- References -- Part III: Technological Risks -- Chapter 13: An Incentives-Based Mechanism for Corporate Cyber Governance Enforcement and Regulation -- Introduction -- Cybercrime and Financial Markets -- Cybercrime and Financial Risks: The State of [Regulatory] Play -- Cybercrime Events and Their Impact -- Systemic Risk Spill-Overs from Hacking Events -- White Knights and Proactive Risk Mitigation -- Concluding Remarks -- References -- Chapter 14: FinTech for Consumers and Retail Investors: Opportunities and Risks of Digital Payment and Investment Services -- Introduction -- Digital Payments -- Mobile Payments -- Cryptocurrencies -- Investment Services -- Crowdinvesting -- Robo Advisors -- Social Trading -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 15: Empirical Modelling of Man-made Disaster Scenarios -- Introduction -- Definition and Characteristics of Man-made Disasters and Their Distinction to Natural Hazards -- Data Collection, Preparation, and Analysis -- Data Collection and Preparation -- Data Analysis , Developing a Loss Curve for Man-made Fire/Explosion Disasters based on Historical Industry Loss Data -- Frequency Distribution -- Severity Distribution -- Aggregate Loss Distribution -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 16: Changing Dynamics of Financial Risk Related to Investments in Low Carbon Technologies -- Introduction -- Climate Change Investment Landscape -- Climate Change and Financial Risks -- Climate Change Risks Associated with Coal Technology -- Financial Risks Associated with Low Carbon Technologies -- Shifting to Low Carbon Technologies -- Opportunities for the Financial Sector and the Management of Low Carbon Technologies Risks -- Insurance Companies -- Banking Sector -- Management of Risks by Renewable Energy Companies -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 17: A New Era in the Risk Management of Financial Firms -- Introduction -- Traditional Risks of Financial Companies -- Business Continuity Principles for Financial Companies -- New Outlook of the Finance Industry -- Taxonomy of Digital Finance Business Functions -- Risks and Risk Management of Financial Companies in the Digitalization Era -- E-Financing -- Challenges of E-Financing -- Risk Management Principles for E-Financing Activities -- Outsourcing -- Challenges of Outsourcing -- Risk Management Principles for Outsourcing -- Cyber Security -- Challenges of Cyber Security -- Risk Management Principles for Cyber Security -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 18: Emerging Risks: Concluding Remarks -- Relevance of Emerging Risks -- Characteristics of Emerging Risks -- Approaches to Modeling and Management -- The Next Steps -- References -- Index
    Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Walker, Thomas Ecological, Societal, and Technological Risks and the Financial Sector Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,c2020 ISBN 9783030388577
    Language: English
    Subjects: Economics
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    Keywords: Aufsatzsammlung
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    UID:
    gbv_1028764928
    Format: x, 267 Seiten , Illustrationen, Diagramme
    ISBN: 9781447324836 , 9781447324843
    Series Statement: Third sector research series
    Additional Edition: ISBN 9781447324874
    Additional Edition: ISBN 9781447324881
    Additional Edition: ISBN 9781447324867
    Language: English
    Keywords: Großbritannien ; Ehrenamtliche Tätigkeit ; Sozialer Wandel ; Geschichte 1981-2012
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    UID:
    gbv_1804036250
    Format: 1 online resource (x, 267 pages) , digital, PDF file(s).
    ISBN: 9781447324867 , 9781447324836
    Series Statement: Third sector research series
    Content: Drawing on extensive survey data and written accounts of citizen engagement, this pioneering book charts change and continuity in voluntary activity since 1981. It is part of the Third Sector Research Series.
    Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 07 Apr 2022)
    Additional Edition: ISBN 9781447324836
    Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781447324836
    Language: English
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    Cham : Springer International Publishing AG
    UID:
    b3kat_BV048920947
    Format: 1 Online-Ressource (539 Seiten)
    ISBN: 9783030892852
    Series Statement: Studies in Economic Transition Series
    Note: Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources , Intro -- Foreword -- Introduction -- References -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Russia on the Move: Railroads and the Exodus from Compulsory Collectivism, 1861-1914 -- Aims and Contents of This Monograph -- Theoretical Framework: The Composite NIE/AEI Model -- Endogenous and Exogenous Explanatory Factors -- The Gerschenkronian-Szternian-Gregorian Conception -- Structure of the Monograph -- Chapter 2. From Hierarchy to Egalitarianism: From Gerschenkron to Gregory-Deduction and Induction from NIE/AEI Complementarity and the Regulationist Model -- Chapter 3. Through the Lenses of Theory: New Institutional Economics and American Evolutionary Institutionalism-The Railroads, National Market Formation, and Democracy in Late Tsarist Russia -- Chapter 4. Industrialization and Tensions Between Tsardom and Nascent Civil Society -- Chapter 5. The Peasant and His Ties to the Land in the Tsarist Industrialization -- Chapter 6. The Railroad and the Metamorphosis of the Mir: Westernizer and Slavophile Conceptions Revisited -- Chapter 7. Secularization and Pious Subversion: To the Constitution by Rail -- Chapter 8. Tsarist Modernization, the Peter-to-Nicholas-Continuity, and Progress through Reform -- Chapter 9. Was Stalin Necessary? The Railroads and the Crumbling of the Obshchina in Tsarist Russia -- Chapter 10. Individualism and Collectivism: Measuring the Transition to Modernity in Tsarist Russian Peasant Society, Penza Province, 1913 -- Chapter 11. Measurable Power: Railroads, Literacy, and the Crafts Artel-Hierarchy in Disarray in Late Imperial Russia -- References -- Chapter 2: From Hierarchy to Egalitarianism: From Gerschenkron to Gregory-Deduction and Induction from NIE/AEI Complementarity and the Regulationist Model -- An Institutional Transition from Personalized to Impersonalized Rights , Locus and Type of Rule in Tsarist Russia -- Peter I and His Notion of the Rule of Law: Militarized Absolutism -- Catherine II: Ambivalent Steps Toward the Impersonalization of Law -- Did the 1864 Judicial Reform Institute the Rule of Law? -- Patriarchal Authority as the Source of Law, Personalized Institutions, and Erosion of Estate Cohesion -- Laws in the Service of Political Goals -- Skill Accumulation As the Source of Corporate Demand for Legality -- Emancipation and Redemption in the 1861-1863 Statutes: Enforcement of the Peasant Commune as an Unintended Paradoxical Challenge to Totalitarian Atomization -- Industrialization as the Foremost Challenge to Personalized Institutions Until 1906 -- The Labor-Mobility Barrier to Industrialization -- Gerschenkron and the Immutable Backwardness of the Peasantry: A Critique -- Witte's System and Gerschenkron's Entrepreneurial-State Theory -- Gerschenkron's Theory of Relative Backwardness -- Gerschenkron in a Coasian Mirror -- Theoretical Tools of Analysis: The New Institutional Economics (NIE)-Critical Realist (CR) Challenge and American Evolutionary Institutionalism (AEI) -- The Historiographical Orientation -- The Gerschenkronian Proposal, the Revisionist Challenge, and My Argument: The Questions I Seek to Answer -- The Railroads and the Metamorphoses of the Obshchina and the Tsarist Autocracy -- Population Increase and the Mobility Barrier -- Gerschenkronian State Entrepreneurship and Modernization -- The State, the Railroad, and the Mir: From Compliance with Authority to Rational Calculus -- Empirical Aspects, the Railroad, and the Landholding System -- Summarizing Remarks -- Summary and Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3: Through the Lenses of Theory: New Institutional Economics and American Evolutionary Institutionalism-Railroads, Specialization, and Democracy in Late Tsarist Russia , How Railroad Construction in Tsarist Russia Demonstrates the Complementarity of NIE and AEI -- The Theoretical Angle: The Legitimacy of the NIE/AEI Combination-Critical Realism Challenges NIE -- NIE: The Rationalist Explanation of Peasant Custom -- Bounded Rationality: The NIE-AEI Bridge -- How Far Apart Are NIE and AEI in Distributing Determination of Action between Agency and Structure? -- Critical Realism -- The Marxian Angle -- Is NIE Incongruent with CR in Principle, Refuting the Temporal Priority of Structure? -- Should a Neoclassically Shaped NIE be Conceived of As Realistic in a Sense Other Than CR? -- American Evolutionary Institutionalism and Darwinian Economics: Adaptation of Peasant Customs to Conditions of Life through Natural Selection -- My Hypothesis of NIE/AEI Complementarity -- Known Theory Combinations: Bridging NIE and AEI through the Economics of Cognition -- Rational Choice/Atomist Universalism: NIE-Indispensable But Insufficient for Understanding the Russian Peasant's Transformation -- Psychological and Sociological Perspectives -- Neo-Institutionalism -- NIE and AEI Understood As Mutually Complementary -- Habits and Evolution -- Reflections on the Theory of Institutional Change -- Informal Institutional Change in a Path-Dependent Society -- Applying the Boyer and Orlean Model to Russia, 1890-1906 -- Precipitants of Endogenous Change -- Lagged Institutional Adaptation: Stolypin's Land Reform (1906) -- Summarizing the Complementarity of Perspectives in This Chapter -- c = Methodological Collective -- i = Methodological Individualism -- Historical Application: Linking the Railroads to Democracy -- The 1861-1914 Transition within Applicable Explanatory Frameworks -- The Reforms and Their Political Aims -- Property and Political Freedom: The Nexus -- Stolypin's Reforms: Intentions and Consequences , Railroad Construction and Its Unintended Consequences -- References -- Chapter 4: Industrialization as a Precipitant of Tensions Between Tsardom and Nascent Civil Society -- The Autocracy Tentatively Engages Its Citizens -- The Tsarist State and the Costs of Dictatorship: The Gerschenkronian Conception and Imperial Self-Perpetuation -- Industrialization Productivity and Income in the Russian Village Commune -- Industrialization and the Invasion of Modernity -- Tensions Between the Rigid Traditional Order and the Social Effects of Industrialization -- External Invasion and an Endogenous Change of Values Topple ESS -- References -- Chapter 5: Peasantry and Land in Industrializing Late Tsarist Russia -- Gerschenkron versus Gregory: Mobility Barriers and Transition from Extensive to Intensive Growth -- The Hesse-Boserup Perspective: Railroads, Population Increase, and the End of Land Reallotment -- Hesse and the Causes of Population Increase -- Introducing Discontinuity in Compulsory Collectivism -- Tsarist Industrialization Interpreted: Gerschenkron versus Gregory -- Was the Peasant Standard of Living Sacrificed on the Altar of Industrialization? Gregory Challenges Gerschenkron -- Elasticity of Collectivist Land Repartitioning, Population Increase, and Risk of Poverty -- Bideleux versus Gerschenkron-Mobility Barrier, Agrarian Property Rights, and Productivity -- The Ideologically Inspired Concept of Relative Poverty in Soviet Sources -- Wage Labor and Migration as Buffers against Impoverishment -- How Coercive Was the Enforcement of Collectivist Custom in the Post-Emancipation Commune? -- Formal Restrictions and the Head of Household's Decision Matrix -- The Impact of the 1861 Emancipation Act -- The Rationality of the Nineteenth-Century Russian Peasant , Peasant Allotment, Private Land, and Productivity Increase in Rural Russia: Indications of Innovative Investment in Agriculture -- Serfdom and Its Relevance -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 6: The Railroads and the Metamorphoses of the Mir: Westernizer and Slavophile Conceptions Revisited -- Collectivism versus Individualism -- Compulsory versus Voluntary Collectivism: Pre-Modern Risk Insurance -- Cooperation and Mutual Assistance through Peasant Collectivism -- Khozhdenie v Kusochki-"Crust-Seeking" -- Redistribution of Movable Capital -- The Serfdom Commune Legacy in Nineteenth-Century Rural Custom -- Serfdom-Cohesion versus Atomization in the Long-Term Post-Emancipation Imprint -- Communal Tenure and Innovation -- The Legacy of Serfdom and Kinship -- The Legitimacy of the Malthusian-Trap Assumption -- Changing Types of Collectivism -- Cooperation in the Late Post-Emancipation Era -- Peasant Collectivism versus Marxist Class Cohesion -- Intergenerational Shift of Power to the Young -- Diffusion of Egalitarianism and Subversion -- The Commune: A Vehicle of Organized Subversion after the Emancipation -- Unintended Consolidation -- Structural Preconditions-Structural Preconditioning versus Individualism in Property Relations -- Natural Calamities and the Origins of the Commune -- Serfdom as a Historical Calamity? -- What Brought Serfdom Down? -- The Village Commune, Dependence on the Landlord, and Individualism of the Emancipation Era-The Determinants of Serfdom -- Communalism or Individualism and Strife in the Final Phases of the Commune? -- Theoretical Interpretation -- Summarizing Remarks -- References -- Chapter 7: Secularization and Pious Subversion: To the Constitution by Rail -- Railroads and Pious Subversion -- The Railroads: A Challenge to Orthodox Enforcement of Mutual Insurance , The Railroads Abet Peasant Individualism: The Rational Peasant, the Church
    Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Sztern, Sylvia Russia on the Move Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,c2022 ISBN 9783030892845
    Language: English
    Keywords: Russland ; Industrialisierung ; Ländliche Entwicklung ; Landwirtschaft ; Wirtschaftsentwicklung ; Eisenbahn ; Eisenbahnbau ; Geschichte 1861-1914
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