This book describes a maximally simple market risk model that is still practical and main risk measures like the value-at-risk and the expected shortfall. It outlines the model's (i) underlying math, (ii) daily operation, and (iii) implementation, while stripping away statistical overhead to keep the concepts accessible. The author selects and weighs the various model features, motivating the choices under real-world constraints, and addresses the evermore important handling of regulatory ...

Why is this book called "The Happy Hour Storybook"?One: Because there are stories in it.Two: Because the author hopes they will make you happy.Three: Because between 5pm and 6pm your mom or dad will read them to you for free. (And it is always between 5pm and 6pm somewhere on this planet.)Four: Because the author's surname is pronounced more or less like the hour in happy hour.Now you know.These are wake-up stories rather than bed-time stories, st...

Little Luke, son of Great Lucifer, is sure that his father misses his wide white wings which used carry him across the skies once. (Although this is something you don't talk about). So he sets out to find new wings for his father. During his search he meets Angela who comes from somewhere up above. With etchings by Linda Wolfsgruber.First published 2001 by Niederösterreichisches Pressehaus.

Why the rabbit has long ears? The explanation is simple: Daddy Rabbit pulls his ears all the time!A satirical picture book about child rearing. Children and parents can laugh about it and reflect on it together. Linda Wofsgruber's colored etchings set the story in the time of Struwwelper and Mother Goose, but that does not affect its importance for today. The book has won the Austrian Children's Book Award 2000 and the Children's Book Award of the City of Vienna 2000.

26 hilarious stories with a philosophical twist:How to Be a Lighthouse - The World's Most Famous Man - The Convent of Illumination - Questions You Had Better Not Ask - An Introduction to Magic and others.The stories were written for Martin Auer's monthly column on creative thinking in India's "Parenting" magazine.

May beetles in July are rare. But what will a lady May beetle do who has outstayed her time, who has failed to find a husband and rear children? She goes on a journey... With etchings by Linda Wolfsgruber

When did life on earth begin?When did the first living beings leave the water?How long did dinosaurs live on earth?And how did the story of evolution continue?How did animals and plants develop?At the end of her life the old dinosaur looks backword almost as far as the beginning, but also forward into the future long after the arrival of man."I had a dream some time ago. In my dream I saw a new world..."A picture book about the evolution of...

Why is this book called "The Happy Hour Storybook"?One: Because there are stories in it.Two: Because the author hopes they will make you happy.Three: Because between 5pm and 6pm your mom or dad will read them to you for free. (And it is always between 5pm and 6pm somewhere on this planet.)Four: Because the author's surname is pronounced more or less like the hour in happy hour.Now you know.These are wake-up stories rather than bed-time stories, st...

Stories about the workings of war and peace for use in peace education.The stories first appeared in German at Beltz & Gelberg in 2000. They appeared in print also in Korean, Arabic and Persian. On the Internet they can be found in more than 20 languages.The German version was shortlisted for the Gustav Heinemann Peace Award in 2001."It is not enough to tell children that war is terrible and peace is much nicer", Martin Auer says. "We all must try to understand how th...

Little Fritz, from the (in)famous children's story about the evil sourcerer who captures little children, arrives at the magic castle to free the children and bring them home again. But not all of them are happy to return to the lives they were taken from...

Little Fritz, from the (in)famous children's story about the evil sourcerer who captures little children, arrives at the magic castle to free the children and bring them home again. But not all of them are happy to return to the lives they were taken from...

This collection includes the full text and drawings from Opposites and More Opposites, plus seven additional poems and drawings about differences. Readers of all ages will delight in this volume of witty wordplay and clever illustrations from two-time Pulitzer Prize recipient and National Book Award winner Richard Wilbur.A perfect introduction to the joy of language, this collection explores:Books About Opposites: Discover the surprising, clever, and ...