Shipping business unwrapped: illusion, bias and fallacy in the shipping business

By:

Duru, Okan

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Routledge maritime mastersPublication details: Routledge 2019 New YorkDescription: ix, 130p. With indexISBN:

9781138292468

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DDC classification:

388.044 D8S4

Summary: The shipping business is a lesser-known industry, but it is an extremely influential element in the global economy. This book provides a snapshot of the shipping business with micro-foundations from the perspectives of institutional and behavioural economics while uncovering hidden facts about the industry. Rather than spending a great deal of time reading many books or consulting costly advisors about fundamental issues, readers can quickly and easily find core concepts examined from multiple perspectives. They will certainly enjoy the engaging, narrative-driven content and learn many surprising truths about this fascinating business. https://www.routledge.com/Shipping-Business-Unwrapped-Illusion-Bias-and-Fallacy-in-the-Shipping/Duru/p/book/9781138292468

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Book	Ahmedabad General Stacks	Non-fiction	388.044 D8S4 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		199212
Book	Jammu		387.5 DUR (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		IIMLJ-3252

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Table of Contents

1. The Fundamentals of Shipping Economics: Perfections, Simplifications, and the Big Picture
2. The Story of Ton-Mile: Can We Really Measure Demand or Supply in the Shipping Business?
3. Ships vs. Assets: Fleet vs. Portfolio
4. Garbage In, Gospel Out: Fallacy and Freakonomics of Shipping Statistics
5. Information Asymmetry: What You Know and What You Do Not Know!
6. Emotions: Neuroeconomics of the Shipping Business
7. Alliance Capitalism: Solidarity Survives
8. Cycles: This Time, It’s Almost the Same!
9. The Anatomy of a Shipping Crisis: Dissection of Irrational Exuberance
10. The Shipping Mortgage Crisis: How Ship Valuation Methods Rationalized Toxic Shipping Portfolios and Ship Covered Bonds
11. Glaring Tycoons: Survivorship Bias
12. The Fallacy of ‘Expertise-like’: Know-Whys
13. Too Big to Fail: Winner's Tragedy
14. About the C-Level Executives: Get the Incentives Right
15. Spot vs. Period: Risk vs. Loyalty
16. Too Small to Survive: Uniqueness vs. Size
17. Seafarers and Outsourcing: Bundle It!
18. Dashboard: Visualizing Shipping Metrics
19. The Age of Artificial Intelligence: What Computational Intelligence Needs to be
20. Lenders’ Stimulus: Even Bankers Can be Misled
21. The Magic of the Discount Factor: Temporal Myopia and Hyperbolic Discounting
22. Credit Engineering: Misleading Habits
23. Risk vs. Uncertainty: Swine Flu and Shipping

The shipping business is a lesser-known industry, but it is an extremely influential element in the global economy. This book provides a snapshot of the shipping business with micro-foundations from the perspectives of institutional and behavioural economics while uncovering hidden facts about the industry. Rather than spending a great deal of time reading many books or consulting costly advisors about fundamental issues, readers can quickly and easily find core concepts examined from multiple perspectives. They will certainly enjoy the engaging, narrative-driven content and learn many surprising truths about this fascinating business.

https://www.routledge.com/Shipping-Business-Unwrapped-Illusion-Bias-and-Fallacy-in-the-Shipping/Duru/p/book/9781138292468

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