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The profitability of power plant investments depends strongly on uncertain fuel and carbon prices. In this doctoral thesis, we combine fundamental electricity market models with stochastic dynamic programming to evaluate power plant investments under uncertainty. The application of interpolation-based stochastic dynamic programming and approximate dynamic programming allows us to consider a greater variety of stochastic fuel and carbon price scenarios compared to other approaches.
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Mensuração e gerenciamento de riscos corporativos – Aplicações de Cash Flow at Risk e Real Options é uma obra com enfoque prático. Ilustrada com exemplos, aplica à realidade brasileira os principais conceitos e técnicas de gestão de riscos no âmbito corporativo. Partindo do conceito fundamental da gestão de riscos – o Value at Risk ou VaR –, o livro expande as perspectivas desta medida, articulando-a com métodos estatísticos de previsão e com a Teoria de Opções financeiras. Essa articulação ocorre sem formalismos desnecessários e em uma perspectiva aplicada, com diversas ilustrações e instruções para a prática computacional. De modo didático e com ilustrações...
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This edited volume provides comparative and transnational histories of the working people of Brazil and the United States. The international group of historians’ methodologically innovative chapters explore links, resonances, and divergences between US and Brazilian labor history.
"A transnational history of corporatism-a "third path" between capitalism and communism-centered on mid-twentieth century Brazil. Following the First World War, there was a widespread feeling that the unchecked free-market competition had given rise to financial crisis, social unrest, and chronic underdevelopment. With people and governments across the world looking for an alternative to laissez-faire capitalism, Brazil took a central role in experimenting with a "third path" between capitalism and communism: corporatism. Remaking Capitalism: A Global History of Corporatism in Brazil, 1920s-1960s argues that corporatism transformed the Brazilian state into an agent of economic development, a...