A tale of two perspectives: Australian risk management in theory and in practice

The objective of this thesis is to identify the gap between academic research in risk management and its implementation in practice. The thesis focuses on the application of Value-at-Risk (VaR) in managing market risk for Australian Authorised Deposit-taking Institutions (ADIs). It is found that the...

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Main Author: Sia, Chow-Siing
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: Curtin University 2015
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/2257
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description The objective of this thesis is to identify the gap between academic research in risk management and its implementation in practice. The thesis focuses on the application of Value-at-Risk (VaR) in managing market risk for Australian Authorised Deposit-taking Institutions (ADIs). It is found that the current regulation does not provide regulator enough information to assess the information content of VaR forecasts reported by ADIs and, therefore, its role to monitor risk-taking behaviours in ADI is limited.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-22572017-02-20T06:37:29Z A tale of two perspectives: Australian risk management in theory and in practice Sia, Chow-Siing The objective of this thesis is to identify the gap between academic research in risk management and its implementation in practice. The thesis focuses on the application of Value-at-Risk (VaR) in managing market risk for Australian Authorised Deposit-taking Institutions (ADIs). It is found that the current regulation does not provide regulator enough information to assess the information content of VaR forecasts reported by ADIs and, therefore, its role to monitor risk-taking behaviours in ADI is limited. 2015 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/2257 en Curtin University fulltext
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A tale of two perspectives: Australian risk management in theory and in practice
title A tale of two perspectives: Australian risk management in theory and in practice
title_full A tale of two perspectives: Australian risk management in theory and in practice
title_fullStr A tale of two perspectives: Australian risk management in theory and in practice
title_full_unstemmed A tale of two perspectives: Australian risk management in theory and in practice
title_short A tale of two perspectives: Australian risk management in theory and in practice
title_sort tale of two perspectives: australian risk management in theory and in practice
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/2257