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List of Figures | p. xvii |
Preface | p. xxi |
Financial Risk in a Crisis-Prone World | p. 1 |
Some History: Why Is Risk a Separate Discipline Today? | p. 1 |
The Scope of Financial Risk | p. 34 |
Market Risk Basics | p. 43 |
Arithmetic, Geometric, and Logarithmic Security Returns | p. 44 |
Risk and Securities Prices: The Standard Asset Pricing Model | p. 49 |
The Standard Asset Distribution Model | p. 63 |
Portfolio Risk in the Standard Model | p. 75 |
Benchmark Interest Rates | p. 88 |
Value-at-Risk | p. 93 |
Definition of Value-at-Risk | p. 94 |
Volatility Estimation | p. 99 |
Modes of Computation | p. 108 |
Short Positions | p. 113 |
Expected Shortfall | p. 114 |
Nonlinear Risks and the Treatment of Bonds and Options | p. 119 |
Nonlinear Risk Measurement and Options | p. 121 |
Yield Curve Risk | p. 136 |
VaR for Default-Free Fixed Income Securities Using The Duration and Convexity Mapping | p. 148 |
Portfolio VaR for Market Risk | p. 159 |
The Covariance and Correlation Matrices | p. 160 |
Mapping and Treatment of Bonds and Options | p. 162 |
Delta-Normal VaR | p. 163 |
Portfolio VAR via Monte Carlo simulation | p. 174 |
Option Vega Risk | p. 175 |
Credit and Counterparty Risk | p. 191 |
Defining Credit Risk | p. 192 |
Credit-Risky Securities | p. 193 |
Transaction Cost Problems in Credit Contracts | p. 196 |
Default and Recovery: Analytic Concepts | p. 199 |
Assessing creditworthiness | p. 204 |
Counterparty Risk | p. 207 |
The Merton Model | p. 213 |
Credit Factor Models | p. 222 |
Credit Risk Measures | p. 226 |
Spread Risk and Default Intensity Models | p. 231 |
Credit Spreads | p. 231 |
Default Curve Analytics | p. 235 |
Risk-Neutral Estimates of Default Probabilities | p. 241 |
Spread Risk | p. 261 |
Portfolio Credit Risk | p. 265 |
Default Correlation | p. 266 |
Credit Portfolio Risk Measurement | p. 270 |
Default Distributions and Credit VaR with the Single-Factor Model | p. 275 |
Using Simulation and Copulas to Estimate Portfolio Credit Risk | p. 284 |
Structured Credit Risk | p. 297 |
Structured Credit Basics | p. 297 |
Credit Scenario Analysis of a Securitization | p. 309 |
Measuring Structured Credit Risk via Simulation | p. 318 |
Standard Tranches and Implied Credit Correlation | p. 337 |
Issuer and Investor Motivations for Structured Credit | p. 342 |
Alternatives to the Standard Market Risk Model | p. 349 |
Real-World Asset Price Behavior | p. 349 |
Alternative Modeling Approaches | p. 363 |
The Evidence on Non-Normality in Derivatives Prices | p. 372 |
Assessing the Quality of Risk Measures | p. 393 |
Model Risk | p. 393 |
Backtesting of VaR | p. 407 |
Coherence of VaR Estimates | p. 414 |
Liquidity and Leverage | p. 421 |
Funding Liquidity Risk | p. 422 |
Markets for Collateral | p. 437 |
Leverage and Forms of Credit in Contemporary Finance | p. 448 |
Transactions Liquidity Risk | p. 461 |
Liquidity Risk Measurement | p. 464 |
Liquidity and Systemic Risk | p. 469 |
Risk Control and Mitigation | p. 477 |
Defining Risk Capital | p. 478 |
Risk Contributions | p. 480 |
Stress Testing | p. 499 |
Sizing Positions | p. 506 |
Risk Reporting | p. 509 |
Hedging and Basis Risk | p. 512 |
Financial Crises | p. 517 |
Panics, Runs, and Crashes | p. 519 |
Self-Reinforcing Mechanisms | p. 539 |
Behavior of Asset Prices During Crises | p. 548 |
Causes of Financial Crises | p. 562 |
Anticipating Financial Crises | p. 583 |
Financial Regulation | p. 597 |
Scope and Structure of Regulation | p. 598 |
Methods of Regulation | p. 605 |
Public Policy Toward Financial Crises | p. 621 |
Pitfalls in Regulation | p. 635 |
Technical Notes | p. 653 |
Binomial Distribution | p. 653 |
Quantiles and Quantile Transformations | p. 654 |
Normal and Lognormal Distributions | p. 656 |
Hypothesis Testing | p. 661 |
Monte Carlo Simulation | p. 662 |
Homogeneous Functions | p. 664 |
Further Reading | p. 666 |
Abbreviations | p. 667 |
References | p. 671 |
Index | p. 701 |
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