Risk Scenarios 2018

What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

It is not easy to build plausible yet severe economic scenarios. Doubly so, if those scenarios are assessed in LINKS Mira Agent Based Model (ABM). Unlike conventional models, Mira ABM takes into account unintended consequences of events – both positive and negative. Just like in real life, positive and negative effects cancel each other out, with little impact on investments. So suggest your scenario for 2018 by describing it on our LinkedIn feed, or better still, by downloading Mira ABM and introducing the scenario in our system. The best (or the worst?) scenario will earn you a New Year’s gift and a professional reputation among our institutional clients.

Some effective scenario pointers:

  • Any social, geopolitical or economic hypothetical but plausible event can become a basis for a scenario
  • In order to build a scenario, we will need “the point of first impact”, i.e. an industry in a country that experiences direct economic hardship in terms of changes prices or volumes due to the scenario. For example, an incomplete scenario is “a war in North Korea”. A more complete scenario is: “a war in North Korea cuts production volumes of mobile phones, semiconductors and flat screens in South Korea”.
  • Impactful scenarios tend to be large, across multiple industries and countries with greater trade ties with the rest of the world.
  • You can read more about building scenarios with Mira ABM here.

How to Suggest a Scenario:

You can describe the scenario on our LinkedIn feed., or send as an email: info@linksanalytics.com

Run Economic and Geo-political Scenarios

Explore how Agent-Based Models (ABMs) can be used to run stress tests and scenario analyses.

December 2, 2016, "Unarmed and Intuitive: Risk Management Event"

Join us at our inaugural meetup dedicated to creating impact with risk management.

We misunderstand probability, we’re myopic, we pay attention to the wrong things, and we are just generally very bad at probabilities. The triumph of “heuristics and biases” research pioneered by Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky poses a question: how do we stay alive and prosper IF we are so bad at solving problems?

In this session we (together) will identify and manage investment risks, but not as we are used to.
View the agenda and sign-up.

DiVe regional development initiative co-organised by LINKS

RDF of Armenia and its partners – LINKS Analytics, PEM Consult and iPricot, will hold a new format of a start-up event – Distributed Venture (DiVe) Gavar. The DiVe is a regional empowerment initiative aimed at improving the local economy of Gavar, Armenia – a small regional centre.
The DiVe concept is simple: international participants with global industry expertise will contribute their start-up ideas and support for niche (normally B2B) apps, and the DiVe team will put together a team of software engineers and project management based in Gavar to develop the app.
The DiVe platform is not for every entrepreneur. In fact, most entrepreneurs would find that they lack control and say in the implementation process. The Distributed Venture is designed for individuals who find it comfortable to work in teams of experts. The added benefit is that your risk is far more limited: DiVe is a way to see your idea implemented without ever quitting your current employer (if you choose to) and having a small stake in the company.
Our first event – DiVe Gavar will take place in Dusseldorf, on October 21, 2016. You can access the event page here.