Risk management is one of the most important, most urgent and most difficult topics for not only top managers of every enterprise and top officials of every governmental department, but also for scientists in the fields of economics, finance, engineering, social science and earth science.
The book series places emphasis on the main problems of risk management in the changing new environments of operational and systems management. It invites quality works covering analysis, modeling, empirical studies and case analysis so as to offer solutions to the emerging new challenges.
It aims to publish new theories of risk management, new methods for risk management and new successful applications in risk management to promote research and development of risk management in many industries and many disciplines; to provide a bridge for exchange of academic researchers and practical risk managers to help academic researchers’ better understanding of risk and risk management and to help managers and officials to learn new methods, techniques and tools which might be efficient in risk identification, risk analysis, risk control and risk management.
By Yunjie Wei, Shouyang Wang, Kin Keung Lai
January 09, 2023
With the internationalization of Renminbi (RMB), the gradual liberalization of China's capital account and the recent reform of the RMB pricing mechanism, the RMB exchange rate has been volatile. This book examines how we can forecast exchange rate reliably. It explains how we can do so through a ...
By Haibin Xie, Kuikui Fan, Shouyang Wang
September 26, 2022
Candlestick charts are often used in speculative markets to describe and forecast asset price movements. This book is the first of its kind to investigate candlestick charts and their statistical properties. It provides an empirical evaluation of candlestick forecasting. The book proposes a novel ...
By Mohammad Heydari, Kin Keung Lai, Zhou Xiaohu
June 30, 2022
Public-Private Partnership (PPP) is a channel through which the public sector can seek alternative funding and expertise from the private sector to procure public infrastructure. Governments around the world are increasingly turning to Public-Private Partnerships to deliver essential goods and ...
By Mohammad Heydari, Kin Keung Lai, Zhou Xiaohu
October 28, 2021
Public–Private Partnerships (PPP or 3Ps) allow the public sector to seek alternative funding and expertise from the private sector during procurement processes. Such partnerships, if executed with due diligence, often benefit the public immensely. Unfortunately, Public–Private Partnerships can be ...
By Piotr Jedynak, Sylwia Bąk
August 20, 2021
Risk management is a domain of management which comes to the fore in crisis. This book looks at risk management under crisis conditions in the COVID-19 pandemic context. The book synthesizes existing concepts, strategies, approaches and methods of risk management and provides the results of ...
By Yafei Zheng, Kin Keung Lai, Shouyang Wang
December 18, 2020
This book provides an updated, concise summary of forecasting air travel demand methodology. It looks at air travel demand forecasting research and attempts to outline the whole intellectual landscape of demand forecasting. It helps readers to understand the basic idea of [email protected] methodology used in ...
By Peter Cheng, Yelin Fu, Kin Keung Lai
December 18, 2020
Apparel is one of the oldest and largest export industries in the world. It is also one of the most global industries because most nations produce for the international textile and apparel market. The changing global landscape drives cost volatility, regulatory risk and change in consumer ...
By Mohammad Heydari, Kin Keung Lai, Zhou Xiaohu
September 20, 2019
The book examines a relatively unexplored issue in supply chain risk management, which is how long companies specifically take to respond to catastrophic events of low probability but high impact. The book also looks at why such supply chain disruptions are unavoidable, and consequently, all ...
By Yat-Fai Lam, Kin Keung Lai
August 28, 2015
The book introduces how we can manage currency options with the Vanna-Volga method. It describes the underlying theories and applications of the Vanna-Volga method in managing currency options of a financial institution, conforming to the Basel III regulatory requirements which demand a high ...
By Jiangze Du, Jying-Nan Wang, Kin Keung Lai, Chao Wang
September 06, 2017
This book provides an overview of Chinese RMB exchange markets and its risk management strategies. The view that RMB is playing an increasingly international role has been widely accepted by practitioners as well as scholars worldwide. Moreover, the Chinese government is opening the control of RMB ...
By Jian Chai, Ying Yang, Quanying Lu, Limin Xing, Ting Liang, Kin Keung Lai, Shouyang Wang
May 30, 2017
This book provides insights into China’s energy consumption and pollution as well as its energy saving policies. It explores energy saving ways and argues for an energy consumption revolution, which includes technologies to improve transportation resource efficiency, modification of existing ...
By Haywood Cheung
January 09, 2017
This book describes the history of gold as a financial instrument and discusses gold exchanges in the major markets. It also describes the history of the Chinese Gold & Silver Exchange Society (CGSE), its current organizational structure and membership registration system. The book also ...
