Market risk is seen as the most important area within finance as institutions work to better manage the risk resulting from adverse movements in the market. Measuring Market Risk provides an overview of the state-of-the-art in Value at Risk (VaR) and Expected Tail Loss (ETL) estimation. A fully updated version of Measuring Market Risk. The organisation of the book has been substantially changed, as has the material. More material integrated into the main text this makes the book more readable. Reduced amount of arcane material (defined as material that hasnt had a great splash in the literature) New chapter on Options Risk Measurement this is a really hot topic Major revisions of other chapters, including a substantial amount of new material (esp. chapters on parametric risk measurement, non-parametric risk measurement, liquidity risks and backtesting) A lot more practical material to help readers perform specific calculations A lot of new examples, Qs, 20 longer case studies on key risk measurement issues A lot more tying together of key ideas, more on different density functions, estimation methods and alternative risk measurements
Book Details:
- Author: Kevin Dowd
- ISBN: 9780470013038
- Year Published: 2005
- Pages: 410
- BISAC: BUS036000, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS/Investments & Securities / General
About the Book and Topic:
Market risk is seen as the most important area within finance as institutions work to better manage the risk resulting from adverse movements in the market. Measuring Market Risk provides an overview of the state-of-the-art in Value at Risk (VaR) and Expected Tail Loss (ETL) estimation. A fully updated version of Measuring Market Risk. The organisation of the book has been substantially changed, as has the material. More material integrated into the main text this makes the book more readable. Reduced amount of arcane material (defined as material that hasnt had a great splash in the literature) New chapter on Options Risk Measurement this is a really hot topic Major revisions of other chapters, including a substantial amount of new material (esp. chapters on parametric risk measurement, non-parametric risk measurement, liquidity risks and backtesting) A lot more practical material to help readers perform specific calculations A lot of new examples, Qs, 20 longer case studies on key risk measurement issues A lot more tying together of key ideas, more on different density functions, estimation methods and alternative risk measurements
Author is well-known & well-respected Chapter on Options Risk Measurement (very hot topic, no other book gives an in-depth treatment of it) Fully revised and updated
About the Author
Kevin Dowd is Professor of Financial Risk Management at Nottingham University. Kevin is an Adjunct Scholar at the Cato Institute in Washington, D.C., and a Fellow of the Pensions Institute at Birkbeck College.