An Introduction to Market
Risk Measurement
Kevin Dowd
This book provides an
introduction to Value at Risk (VaR) and expected tail loss (ETL) estimation and is a
student-oriented version of Measuring Market Risk (John Wiley & Sons 2002).
An Introduction to Market
Risk Measurement includes coverage of:
- Parametric and
non-parametric risk estimation
- Simulation
- Numerical Methods
- Liquidity Risks
- Risk Decomposition and
Budgeting
- Backtesting
- Stress Testing
- Model Risk
Divided into two parts,
part one discusses the various risk measurement techniques, whilst part two provides a
toolkit of the main tools required to understand market risk measurement. A CD is packaged
with the book, containing a MATLAB folder of risk measurement functions, in addition to
some examples in Excel/VBA.
Table of Contents:
Preface.
Acknowledgements.
The Risk Measurement
Revolution.
Measures of Financial Risk.
Basic Issues in Measuring
Market Risk.
Non-parametric VaR and ETL.
Parametric VaR and ETL.
Simulation Approaches to
VaR and ETL Estimation.
Incremental and Component
Risks.
Estimating Liquidity Risks.
Backtesting Market Risk
Models.
Stress Testing.
Model Risk.
Toolkit.
Bibliography.
Author Index.
Subject Index.
Software Index
284+CD