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Using Technology to Encourage Critical Thinking and Optimal Decision Making in Risk Management Education
Author(s) -
Garvey John,
Buckley Patrick
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
risk management and insurance review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.386
H-Index - 16
eISSN - 1540-6296
pISSN - 1098-1616
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-6296.2011.01200.x
Subject(s) - risk management , financial services , test (biology) , business , actuarial science , economics , risk analysis (engineering) , finance , paleontology , biology
This article draws a link between the risk management failures in the financial services industry and the educational philosophy and teaching constraints at business schools. An innovative application of prediction market technology within business education is proposed as a method that can be used to encourage students to think about risk in an open and flexible way. This article explains how prediction markets also provide students with the necessary experience to critically evaluate and stress‐test quantitative risk modeling techniques later in their academic and professional careers.