- Hardcover: 280 pages
- Publisher: Academic Press Inc (3 April 2007)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0123694663
- ISBN-13: 978-0123694669
- Product Dimensions: 26.1 x 19 x 2 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 905,973 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"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
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While the highly technical measurement techniques and methodologies of Value at Risk have attracted huge interest, much less attention has been focused on how Value at Risk and the risk-adjusted performance measures such as RAROC or economic profit/EVA can be effectively used to improve a bank's decision making processes. Academic books are typically concerned primarily with measurement techniques, and devote only a small section to describing the applications, usually without discussing the problems that changing organizational processes in banks may have on business units' behaviour. Practitioners' books are often based on a single experience, presenting the approach that has been pursued by a single bank, but often do not adequately evaluate that approach. In actual practice, the choice of how to use Value at Risk and risk-adjusted performance measures has no single optimal solution, but requires effective decision making that can identify the solution that is consistent with the bank's style of management and coordination mechanisms, and often with characteristics of individual business units as well. In this book, Francesco Saita of Bocconi University argues that even though risk measurement techniques have greatly improved in recent years for market, credit and now also operational risk, capital management and capital allocation decisions are far from becoming purely technical and mechanical. On one hand, decisions about capital management must consider handling different capital constraints (e.g. regulatory vs. economic capital ) and face remarkable difficulties in providing a measure of 'aggregated' Value at Risk (i.e. a measure that considers the overall value at risk of the bank after diversification across risk types). On the other hand, the aim of using capital more efficiently through capital allocation cannot be achieved only through a sort of centralized asset allocation process, but rather by designing a Value at Risk limit system and a risk-adjusted performance measurement system that are designed to provide the right incentives to individual business units. This connection between sophisticated and cutting edge risk measurement techniques and practical bank decision making about capital management and capital allocation make this book unique and provide readers with a depth of academic and theoretical expertise combined with practical and real-world understanding of bank structure, organizational constraints, and decisionmaking processes. This 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 is based at Bocconi University in Milan, Italy, one of the foremost institutions for banking in Europe.
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This is the book for management...if you need to know the fancy words but not much about it then this is the book for you. The author has so much in the TOC that you can't help but ask yourself how is all this be efficiently covered in so little pages. The answer is it really doesn't get covered as it should. There are no details presented just little overview of the topics in the TOC. If this is what you want then go for it, but honestly there are much better books that cover each topic separately and hence more efficiently.
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