Value at Risk and Bank Capital Management: Risk Adjusted Performances, Capital Management and Capital Allocation Decision Making (Academic Press Advanced Finance) - Hardcover

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Saita, Francesco

 
9780123694669: Value at Risk and Bank Capital Management: Risk Adjusted Performances, Capital Management and Capital Allocation Decision Making (Academic Press Advanced Finance)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0123694663 ISBN 13: 9780123694669
Publisher: Academic Press, 2007

Synopsis

Value at Risk and Bank Capital Management offers a unique combination of concise, expert academic analysis of the latest technical VaR measures and their applications, and the practical realities of bank decision making about capital management and capital allocation.

The 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, Francesco Saita, is based at Bocconi University in Milan, Italy, one of the foremost institutions for banking in Europe. He provides readers with his extensive academic and theoretical expertise combined with his practical and real-world understanding of bank structure, organizational constraints, and decision-making processes.

This book is recommended for graduate students in master's or Ph.D. programs in finance/banking and bankers and risk managers involved in capital allocation and portfolio management.

  • Contains concise, expert analysis of the latest technical VaR measures but without the highly mathematical component of other books
  • Discusses practical applications of these measures in the real world of banking, focusing on effective decision making for capital management and allocation
  • Author is based at Bocconi University in Milan, Italy, one of the foremost institutions for banking in Europe

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Review

"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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Publisher
Academic Press
Publication date
2007
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0123694663
ISBN 13 
9780123694669
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
280