Risk Management: Value at Risk and Beyond - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521781809 ISBN 13: 9780521781800

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2002

Synopsis

The use of derivative products in risk management has spread from commodities, stocks and fixed income items, to such virtual commodities as energy, weather and bandwidth. All this can give rise to so-called volatility and there has been a consequent development in formal risk management techniques to cover all types of risk: market, credit, liquidity, etc. One of these techniques, Value at Risk, was developed specifically to help manage market risk over short periods. Its success led, somewhat controversially, to its take up and extension to credit risk over longer time-scales. This extension, ultimately not successful, led to the collapse of a number of institutions. The present book, which was originally published in 2002, by some of the leading figures in risk management, examines the complex issues that concern the stability of the global financial system by presenting a mix of theory and practice.

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Review

"...studying the articles in this volume will give the reader a profound picture of the foundations of modern risk management in the static case." Journal of the American Statistical Association

Book Description

In this 2002 book some of the leading figures in risk management examine the complex issues governing the stability of the global financial system. Chapters present a mix of theory and practice, from axiomatics, measurement and extreme value theory to operational, credit and market risk. Essential reading for all involved in financial risk management.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521781809
• ISBN 13: 9780521781800
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 290
• Editor: Dempster M. A. H.