Diebold / Doherty / Herring The Known, the Unknown, and the Unknowable in Financial Risk Management

Measurement and Theory Advancing Practice
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-3528-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
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E-Book, Englisch, 392 Seiten

Francis X. Diebold is the Paul F. and E. Warren Shafer Miller Professor of Economics at the University of Pennsylvania and professor of finance and statistics at the university's Wharton School. Neil A. Doherty is the Frederick H. Ecker Professor of Insurance and Risk Management at the Wharton School. Richard J. Herring is the Jacob Safra Professor of International Banking and professor of finance at the Wharton School.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Diebold, Francis X.

Doherty, Neil A.

Herring, Richard J.

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Forschung und Information Risikobewertung, Risikotheorie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Finanzsektor & Finanzdienstleistungen Versicherungswirtschaft
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Finanzsektor & Finanzdienstleistungen Finanzsektor & Finanzdienstleistungen: Allgemeines

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface vii

Chapter 1: Introduction by Francis X. Diebold, Neil A. Doherty, and Richard J. Herring 1

Chapter 2: Risk: A Decision Maker's Perspective by Sir Clive W. J. Granger 31

Chapter 3: Mild vs. Wild Randomness: Focusing on Those Risks That Matter by Benoit B. Mandelbrot and Nassim Nicholas Taleb 47

Chapter 4: The Term Structure of Risk, the Role of Known and Unknown Risks, and Nonstationary Distributions by Riccardo Colacito and Robert F. Engle 59

Chapter 5: Crisis and Noncrisis Risk in Financial Markets: A Unified Approach to Risk Management by Robert H. Litzenberger and David M. Modest 74

Chapter 6: What We Know, Don't Know, and Can't Know about Bank Risk: A View from the Trenches by Andrew Kuritzkes and Til Schuermann 103

Chapter 7: Real Estate through the Ages: The Known, the Unknown, and the Unknowable by Ashok Bardhan and Robert H. Edelstein 145

Chapter 8: Reflections on Decision-making under Uncertainty by Paul R. Kleindorfer 164

Chapter 9: O n the Role of Insurance Brokers in Resolving the Known, the Unknown, and the Unknowable by Neil A. Doherty and Alexander Muermann 194

Chapter 10: Insuring against Catastrophes by Howard Kunreuther and Mark V. Pauly 210

Chapter 11: Managing Increased Capital Markets Intensity: The Chief Financial Officer's Role in Navigating the Known, the Unknown, and the Unknowable by Charles N. Bralver and Daniel Borge 239

Chapter 12: The Role of Corporate Governance in Coping with Risk and Unknowns by Kenneth E. Scott 277

Chapter 13: Domestic Banking Problems by Charles A. E. Goodhart 286

Chapter 14: Crisis Management: The Known, The Unknown, and the Unknowable by Donald L. Kohn 296

Chapter 15: Investing in the Unknown and Unknowable by Richard J. Zeckhauser 304

List of Contributors 347

Index 359

Über Autor(innen)

Francis X. Diebold is the Paul F. and E. Warren Shafer Miller Professor of Economics at the University of Pennsylvania and professor of finance and statistics at the university's Wharton School. Neil A. Doherty is the Frederick H. Ecker Professor of Insurance and Risk Management at the Wharton School. Richard J. Herring is the Jacob Safra Professor of International Banking and professor of finance at the Wharton School.