Stalking the black swan research and decision making in a world of extreme volatility /

Main Author: Posner, Kenneth A.
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia Business School Publishing, c2010.
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Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10419632
Table of Contents:
  • Forecasting in extreme environments
  • Thinking in probabilities
  • The balance between overconfidence and underconfidence, and the special risk of complex modeling
  • Fighting information overload with strategy
  • Making decisions in real time: how to react to new information without falling victim to cognitive dissonance
  • Mitigating information asymmetry
  • Mapping from simple ideas to complex analysis
  • The power and pitfalls of Monte Carlo modeling
  • Judgment.