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Value at Risk and Bank Capital Management
Risk Adjusted Performances, Capital Management and Capital Allocation Decision Making
A unique combination of concise, expert academic analysis of the latest technical VaR measures and their applications and the practical realities of bank decision making about capital management and capital allocation.
Francesco Saita (Author)
9780123694669, Elsevier Science
Hardback, published 3 April 2007
280 pages, Illustrated
26 x 18.3 x 2.2 cm, 0.77 kg
"This book does a great service by presenting the measurement of market risk and credit risk in one well-structured book. Aggregation methodology is also presented in detail. The inclusion of real-life examples is also a great benefit to the reader." --Chris Matten, Partner, Financial Services Industry Practice, PricewaterhouseCoopers
Value at Risk and Bank Capital Management offers a unique combination of concise, expert academic analysis of the latest technical VaR measures and their applications, and the practical realities of bank decision making about capital management and capital allocation. The book contains concise, expert analysis of the latest technical VaR measures but without the highly mathematical component of other books. It discusses practical applications of these measures in the real world of banking, focusing on effective decision making for capital management and allocation. The author, Francesco Saita, is based at Bocconi University in Milan, Italy, one of the foremost institutions for banking in Europe. He provides readers with his extensive academic and theoretical expertise combined with his practical and real-world understanding of bank structure, organizational constraints, and decision-making processes. This book is recommended for graduate students in master's or Ph.D. programs in finance/banking and bankers and risk managers involved in capital allocation and portfolio management.
Part 1: Value at Risk and Bank Capital Management: The General Framework
ch. 1 Value at Risk, capital management and capital allocation
ch 2 What is “capital? management? The impact of Basel II and the new accounting standards
Part II: Risk Measurement and Risk Integration ch 3 Market Risk
ch 4 Credit Risk
ch 5 Operational Risk and Business risk
ch 6 The challenge of risk aggregation
Part III: Risk Control, Performance measurement, and capital allocation ch 7 Defining Value at Risk limits
ch 8 Risk-adjusted performance measurement
ch 9 Risk-adjusted performance measures, capital allocation and the budgeting process
ch 10 conclusion
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Subject Areas: Investment & securities [KFFM], Banking [KFFK]
