Writing with a clarity that appeals to certain accounting professors, two members of that profession tell how they discovered some sort of possible link between (A) some people being religious in certain ways; and (B) the risk of stock prices crashing for companies that technically have their corporate headquarters in the counties in which those […]
Tag: risk
Calculations: Insurance for clowns
Clown insurance is for clowns, not for persons potentially afflicted by them. Insurance companies offer it to clowns because clowns – no matter what you may thoughtlessly think of them – are people, and bad things can happen to anyone. Clown insurance exists, as a distinct product category, thanks to the mathematical discipline called risk assessment. […]
Risk-taking Ig Nobel winner sponsors a prize for risk
Lloyds of London, is sponsoring a prize for “the science of risk”. The Lloyds web site says: The Science of Risk Prize Information Booklet 2011 can be found here. The 1992 Ig Nobel Prize in economics was awarded to “the investors of Lloyds of London, heirs to 300 years of dull prudent management, for their bold attempt to insure […]
Viewing soccer, and heart attacks
“Viewing a stressful soccer match more than doubles the risk of an acute cardiovascular event.” This disturbing conclusion was published in a 2008 study based on data regarding 4,279 Bavarian medical emergency cases. The number, and character, of adverse cardiovascular events which occurred during the FIFA World Cup (held in Germany from June 9 to […]