Author: Derek Leyland Stevenson
Publisher: Pollinger in Print
Keywords: later, crashes, six
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2006-12-15
List price: $22.99
ISBN-10: 1905665164
ISBN-13: 9781905665167

Memoirs of a fighter pilot in WW2 who went on to an eventful career as a flying officer in the RAF. The story of his squadron their bravery, and their contribution to victory.

Author: Todd A. Knoop
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Keywords: crashes, crises, panics, macroeconomics, financial, modern
Number of Pages: 274
Published: 2008-04
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 1405161817
ISBN-13: 9781405161817

Modern Financial Macroeconomics takes a non-technical approach in examining the role that financial markets and institutions play in shaping outcomes in the modern macro economy.Reviews historical and contemporary macroeconomic theory Examines governmental influence on moderating (or exacerbating) economic fluctuations Discusses both empirical and theoretical links between financial systems and economic performance, as well as case studies detailing the role of finance in specific business cycle episodes

Author: Steven Cushing
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: aircraft, crashes, clashes, communication, words, fatal
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 1997-05-15
List price: $21.00
ISBN-10: 0226132013
ISBN-13: 9780226132013

On March 27, 1977, 583 people died when KLM and Pan Am 747s collided on a crowded, foggy runway in Tenerife, the Canary Islands. The cause, a miscommunication between the pilot and the air traffic controller. The pilot radioed, "We are now at takeoff," meaning that the plane was lifting off, but the tower controller misunderstood and thought the plane was waiting on the runway.In Fatal Words, Steven Cushing explains how miscommunication has led to dozens of aircraft disasters, and he proposes innovative solutions for preventing them. He examines ambiguities in language when aviation jargon and

Author: Markus K. Brunnermeier
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: technical, analysis, herding, crashes, bubbles, pricing, asymmetric, information, asset
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 2001-03-29
List price: $84.99
ISBN-10: 0198296983
ISBN-13: 9780198296980

Asset prices are driven by public news and information that is often dispersed among many market participants. These agents try to infer each other’s information by analyzing price processes. In the past two decades, theoretical research in financial economics has significantly advanced our understanding of the informational aspects of price processes. This book provides a detailed and up-to-date survey of this important body of literature. The book begins by demonstrating how to model asymmetric information and higher-order knowledge. It then contrasts competitive and strategic equil

Author: Charles P. Kindleberger
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: wiley, investment, classics, crises, financial, panics, crashes, history, manias
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2000-12-04
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0471389455
ISBN-13: 9780471389453

"Sometime in the next five years you may kick yourself for not reading and re-reading Kindleberger’s Manias, Panics, and Crashes." -Paul A. Samuelson, Institute Professor Emeritus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology "One never picks up a work by Charles Kindleberger without anticipating a feast of entertainment. But underneath the hilarious anecdotes, the elegant epigrams, and the graceful turns of phrase, Kindleberger is deadly serious. The manner in which human beings earn their livings is no laughing matter to him, especially when they attempt to do so at the expense of one another

Author: David Gero
Publisher: The History Press
Keywords: airliner, crashes, civil, major, disasters, world, aviation
Number of Pages: 382
Published: 2009-09-01
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 0752450395
ISBN-13: 9780752450391

Investigating every type of calamity—including those caused by weather, mechanical failure, pilot error, inhospitable terrain, and hostile action—this is a jarring compendium of some of history’s most devastating aviation catastrophes. The first incident of sabotage involving a commercial jetliner is covered, as are the first crash of the jumbo jet era and such high-profile episodes as Pan American Flight 103 at Lockerbie and the Twin Towers tragedy of September 11. An overview of the history of air passenger travel over the decades is also provided, along with a timeline covering the ri

Author: Stefan Pala
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: notes, economics, mathematical, systems, lecture, markets, crashes, experimental, asset, bubbles
Number of Pages: 171
Published: 1970-01-01
List price: $89.95
ISBN-10: 3642021468
ISBN-13: 9783642021466

This book describes a laboratory experiment designed to test the causes and properties of bubbles in financial markets and explores the question whether it is possible to design markets which avoid such bubbles and crashes. In the experiment, subjects were given the opportunity to trade in a stock market modeled after the seminal work of Smith et al. (1988). To account for the increasing importance of online betting sites, subjects were also allowed to trade in a digital option market. The outcomes shed new light on how subjects form and update their expectations, placing special emphasis on t