Elements of Financial Risk Management
- 1st Edition - July 22, 2003
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Author: Peter Christoffersen
- Language: English
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 0 8 - 0 4 7 2 6 1 - 4
Elements of Financial Risk Management offers an introduction to modern risk management. It focuses on implementation, especially recent techniques which facilitate bridging… Read more
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Request a sales quoteElements of Financial Risk Management offers an introduction to modern risk management. It focuses on implementation, especially recent techniques which facilitate bridging the gap between standard textbooks on risk and real-life risk management systems.
It identifies key features of risk asset returns and captures them in tractable statistical models in the companion website. It presents step-by-step approaches as a means to solve problems.
This book is intended for three types of readers with an interest in financial risk management. First, Master's and Ph.D. students specializing in finance and economics. Second, market practitioners with a quantitative undergraduate or graduate degree. Third, a small group of advanced undergraduates majoring in either economics, engineering, finance, or another quantitative field.
The book will also suit those in financial engineering courses who have strong quantitative backgrounds and those in Ph.D. courses.
*Pinpoints key features of risk asset returns and captures them in tractable statistical models in the
companion website
*Presents step-by-step approaches as a means to solve problems
*Visible patterns in the data motivate the choices of tools, and when tools fall short, it presents the next tool
This book is intended for three types of readers with an interest in financial risk management. First, Master's and Ph.D. students specializing in finance and economics. Second, market practitioners with a quantitative undergraduate or graduate degree. Third, a small group of advanced undergraduates majoring in either economics, engineering, finance, or another quantitative field. Realistically, the book will best suit those in financial engineering courses who have strong quantitative backgrounds and those in Ph.D. courses.
Risk Management and Financial Returns; Volatility Forecasting; Correlation Modeling; Modeling the Conditional Distribution; Simulation-Based Methods; Option Pricing; Modeling Option Risk; Backtesting and Stress Testing
- Edition: 1
- Published: July 22, 2003
- Imprint: Academic Press
- No. of pages: 214
- Language: English
- eBook ISBN: 9780080472614
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Peter Christoffersen
Peter Christoffersen is the TMX Chair in Capital Markets and a Fellow of the Bank of Canada. He publishes in empirical asset pricing and financial econometrics and is the author of Elements of Financial Risk Management. He serves as an Associate Editor of the Journal of Derivatives. Peter has won research awards from AIMA Canada and the Q-Group. He previously taught at McGill University and worked at the IMF.
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Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, CanadaRead Elements of Financial Risk Management on ScienceDirect