Financial Risk Measurement for Financial Risk Management

Financial Risk Measurement for Financial Risk Management∗

Current practice largely follows restrictive approaches to market risk measurement, such as historical simulation or RiskMetrics. In contrast, we propose flexible methods that exploit recent developments in financial econometrics and are likely to produce more accurate risk assessments, treating both portfoliolevel and asset-level analysis. Asset-level analysis is particularly challenging becau...

Risk Measurement for Financial Institutions

Dynamic Financial Risk Management

For many years, financial markets have been part of people’s everyday life. Information on the major securities can be found easily in the daily press or on internet. The different actors of the economy look closely at some fundamental parameters, such as interest rates, currency rates, stock prices..., which may affect the management of their firms, especially after the deregulation process in...

Estimation Risk in Financial Risk Management

Value-at-Risk (VaR) is increasingly used in portfolio risk measurement, risk capital allocation and performance attribution. Financial risk managers are therefore rightfully concerned with the precision of typical VaR techniques. The purpose of this paper is to assess the precision of common dynamic models and to quantify the magnitude of the estimation error by constructing confidence interval...

Mathematics in Financial Risk Management

The paper gives an overview of mathematical models and methods used in financial risk management; the main area of application is credit risk. A brief introduction explains the mathematical issues arising in the risk management of a portfolio of loans. The paper continues with a formal overview of credit risk management models and discusses axiomatic approaches to risk measurement. We close wit...