Financial risk management : models, history, and institutions

"An in-depth look at the tools and techniques professionals use to address financial risksRisk and uncertainty, as Allan Malz explains in his ground-breaking new book, are two completely different concepts. Risk is a quantifiable uncertainty that can be modeled, while uncertainty defines non-qu...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Malz, Allan M. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Hoboken, New Jersey : Wiley , c2011
Series:Wiley finance series
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Financial risk in a crisis-prone world
  • 2. Market risk basics
  • 3. Value-at-Risk
  • 4. Nonlinear risks and the treatment of bonds and options
  • 5. Portfolio VaR for market risk
  • 6. Credit and counterparty risk
  • 7. Spread risk and default intensity models
  • 8. Portfolio credit risk
  • 9. Structured credit risk
  • 10. Alternatives to the standard market risk model
  • 11. Assessing the quality of risk measures
  • 12. Liquidity and leverage
  • 13. Risk control and mitigation
  • 14. Financial crises
  • 15. Financial regulation