Financial risk management from metrics to human conduct

"This book is not a comprehensive review or catalogue of financial risk management tools and methods; instead, it focuses on the core methods that are actually used by professionals, such as historical Value-at-Risk and Expected Shortfall. Without any knowledge of probabilities, the reader can...

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Main Author: Maurer, Frantz
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Hoboken, NJ Wiley 2024
Series:Wiley finance series
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Collection: O'Reilly - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary:"This book is not a comprehensive review or catalogue of financial risk management tools and methods; instead, it focuses on the core methods that are actually used by professionals, such as historical Value-at-Risk and Expected Shortfall. Without any knowledge of probabilities, the reader can fully understand the meaning of these risk indicators and how to use them when faced with real life situations that require risk analysis and decision-making. The authors then show how to marry this simple approach to financial risk with a conduct risk index designed to benchmark the conduct of natural risk-takers like traders, and measure how far these risk-takers are from a responsible behavior. A ready-to-use version of this conduct risk index calculator is provided as an Excel add-in on the book's companion website"--
Physical Description:1 online resource
ISBN:1119885302
9781119885306
9781119885313
1119885310