Risk Management - Challenge and Opportunity

Dealing with all aspects of risk management that have undergone significant innovation in recent years, this book aims at being a reference work in its field. Different to other books on the topic, it addresses the challenges and opportunities facing the different risk management types in banks, insurance companies, and the corporate sector. Due to the rising volatility in the financial markets as well as political and operational risks affecting the business sector in general, capital adequacy rules are equally important for non-financial companies. For the banking sector, the book emphasizes the modifications implied by the Basel II proposal. The volume has been written for academics as well as practitioners, in particular finance specialists. It is unique in bringing together such a wide array of experts and correspondingly offers a complete coverage of recent developments in risk management.

List of contents

Bank Risk Management.- Basel II and the Effects on the Banking Sector.- Conflicts of Interest and Market Discipline in Financial Services Firms.- Risk Management and Value Creation in Banks.- The New Basel Capital Accord.- Value at Rist: Regulatory and Other Applications, Methods, and Criticism.- Parsimonious Value at Risk for Fixed Income Portfolios.- Risk Budgeting with Value at Risk Limits.- Value at Risk, Bank Equity and Credit Risk.- Parametric and Nonparametric Estimation of Conditional Return Expectations.- Credit Risk Portfolio Modeling: An Overview.- Evaluating Credit Risk Models.- Estimation of Default Probabilities and Default Correlations.- Managing Investment Risks of Institutional Private Equity Investors - The Challenge of Illiquidity.- Assessment of Operational Risk Capital.- Operational Risk: The Management Perspective.- Insurance Risk Management.- Catastrophic Events as Threats to Society: Private and Public Risk Management Strategies.- New Approaches to Managing Catastrophic Insurance Risk.- Alternative Risk Transfer.- The Challenge of Managing Longevity Risk.- Asset/Liability Management of German Life Insurance Companies: A Value-at-Risk Approach in the Presence of Interest Rate Guarantees.- Corporate Risk Management.- Risk Management, Corporate Governance and the Public Corporation.- Integrating Corporate Risk Management.- Value-Based Motives for Corporate Risk Management.- Value-Based Corporate Risk Management.- Statutory Regulation of the Risk Management Function in Germany: Implementation Issues for the Non-Financial Sector.- A Comprehensive Approach to the Measurement of Macroeconomic Exposure.- Foreign-Exchange-Risk Management in German Non-Financial Corporations: An Empirical Analysis.- Estimating the Exchange Rate Exposure of USMultinational Firms: Evidence from an Event Study Methodology.- International Corporate Risk Management: A Comparison of Three Major Airlines.- Corporate Risk Management: Real Options and Financial Hedging.- The Real Option Value of Operational and Managerial Flexibility in Global Supply Chain Networks.- Managing Acquisition-Related Currency Risk Exposures: The E.ON-Powergen Case.- Introducing New Risk Classes to Organized Exchanges: The Case of Electricity Derivatives.- Was Enron's Business Model Fundamentally Flawed?.- "Real" Risk Management: Opportunities and Limits of Consumption-Based Strategies.- Capacity Options: Convergence of Supply Chain Management and Financial Asset Management.- Systemic Issues of Risk Management.- The Key to Risk Management: Management.- Economic Risks of EMU.- Does Risk Management Make Financial Markets Riskier?.- Risk Management, Rational Herding and Institutional Investors: A Macro View.- Revitalization of Japanese Banks: Japan's Big Bang Reform.

About the author

Prof. Ulrich Hommel, Ph.D. ist Inhaber des Stiftungslehrstuhls für Unternehmensfinanzierung und Kapitalmärkte an der European Business School (ebs).

Professor Dr. Markus Rudolf ist Inhaber des Dresdner Bank Lehrstuhls für Finanzintermediäre und Kapitalmarkttheorie an der WHU Koblenz.

Summary

A wide array of experts examine the recent developments in risk management. The emphasis is on highlighting the link between the academic literature and practical issues. Ideally suited for academics and practitioners, especially finance specialists.

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From the book reviews:
“This book has emerged as one of the very insightful excellent publications that cover a variety of diverse aspects of risk management in the banking sector, insurance and other corporate companies. … this is a most insightful book as it includes a comprehensive review of the literature and findings. This book is strongly recommended as research material since it provides the philosophy and principles, from the fundamental to the advanced level of risk management studies.” (Shahsuzan Zakaria and Sardar M. N. Islam, International Journal of Risk and Contingency Management, Vol. 3 (4), October-December, 2014)

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From the book reviews:
"This book has emerged as one of the very insightful excellent publications that cover a variety of diverse aspects of risk management in the banking sector, insurance and other corporate companies. ... this is a most insightful book as it includes a comprehensive review of the literature and findings. This book is strongly recommended as research material since it provides the philosophy and principles, from the fundamental to the advanced level of risk management studies." (Shahsuzan Zakaria and Sardar M. N. Islam, International Journal of Risk and Contingency Management, Vol. 3 (4), October-December, 2014)

Product details

• Assisted by: Michael Frenkel (Editor), Ulric Hommel (Editor), Ulrich Hommel (Editor), Markus Rudolf (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2004
• EAN: 9783540226826
• ISBN: 978-3-540-22682-6
• No. of pages: 838
• Weight: 1392 g
• Illustrations: XXVII, 838 p.
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics; Management, Makroökonomie, Management und Managementtechniken, Risikomanagement, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Finance / General, Ökonomik / Makroökonomik, Business / Management, Management / Risikomanagement