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Elements of Financial Risk Management
- 2nd Edition - November 10, 2011
- Author: Peter Christoffersen
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 3 7 4 4 4 8 - 7
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 0 2 3 5 - 0
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 0 8 - 0 9 2 2 4 3 - 0
The Second Edition of this best-selling book expands its advanced approach to financial risk models by covering market, credit, and integrated risk. With new data that cover the re… Read more
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Request a sales quoteThe Second Edition of this best-selling book expands its advanced approach to financial risk models by covering market, credit, and integrated risk. With new data that cover the recent financial crisis, it combines Excel-based empirical exercises at the end of each chapter with online exercises so readers can use their own data. Its unified GARCH modeling approach, empirically sophisticated and relevant yet easy to implement, sets this book apart from others. Five new chapters and updated end-of-chapter questions and exercises, as well as Excel-solutions manual, support its step-by-step approach to choosing tools and solving problems.
- Examines market risk, credit risk, and operational risk
- Provides exceptional coverage of GARCH models
- Features online Excel-based empirical exercises
Graduate students and professionals working in financial engineering and risk management, quantitative asset management, macroeconomic and financial forecasting, quantitative trading, and applied research.
Part I: Background
Risk Management and Financial Returns
The Dangers of VaR and Historical Simulation.
A Primer on Financial Econometrics. NEW
Part 2: Portfolio Level Risk Models
Volatility Modeling using Daily Returns
Volatility Modeling using Intraday Returns. NEW
Modeling the Conditional Distribution
Part 3: Asset Level Risk Models
Correlation Modeling
Copula Models and Integrated Risk Management. NEW
Simulating the Term Structure of Risk
Part 4: Further Topics
Option Pricing
Option Risk Management
CDS Pricing and Credit Risk Management. NEW
Backtesting and Stress Testing
- No. of pages: 344
- Language: English
- Edition: 2
- Published: November 10, 2011
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Hardback ISBN: 9780123744487
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128102350
- eBook ISBN: 9780080922430
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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.
Affiliations and expertise
Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, Canada