Elements of Financial Risk Management

2. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-12-374448-7
Verlag: William Andrew Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 344 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 580 g

The Second Edition of this best-selling book expands its advanced approach to financial risk models by covering market, credit, and integrated risk. With new data that cover the recent financial crisis, it combines Excel-based empirical exercises at the end of each chapter with online exercises so readers can use their own data. Its unified GARCH modeling approach, empirically sophisticated and relevant yet easy to implement, sets this book apart from others. Five new chapters and updated end-of-chapter questions and exercises, as well as Excel-solutions manual, support its step-by-step approach to choosing tools and solving problems.

Zielgruppe

Graduate students and professionals working in financial engineering and risk management, quantitative asset management, macroeconomic and financial forecasting, quantitative trading, and applied research.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Christoffersen, Peter

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Finanzsektor & Finanzdienstleistungen Anlagen & Wertpapiere
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Risikomanagement
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Unternehmensfinanzen Finanzierung, Investition, Leasing
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Finanzsektor & Finanzdienstleistungen Bankwirtschaft
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Finanzsektor & Finanzdienstleistungen Unternehmensfinanzierung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I: Background Risk Management and Financial Returns The Dangers of VaR and Historical Simulation A Primer on Financial Econometrics. NEW

Part 2: Portfolio Level Risk Models Volatility Modeling using Daily Returns Volatility Modeling using Intraday Returns. NEW Modeling the Conditional Distribution

Part 3: Asset Level Risk Models Correlation Modeling Copula Models and Integrated Risk Management. NEW Simulating the Term Structure of Risk

Part 4: Further Topics Option Pricing Option Risk Management CDS Pricing and Credit Risk Management. NEW Backtesting and Stress Testing

Über Autor(innen)

Christoffersen, Peter
Peter Christoffersen is the TMX Chair in Capital Markets and a Fellow of the Bank of Canada. He publishes in empirical asset pricing and financial econometrics and is the author of Elements of Financial Risk Management. He serves as an Associate Editor of the Journal of Derivatives. Peter has won research awards from AIMA Canada and the Q-Group. He previously taught at McGill University and worked at the IMF.