This paper considers a simple model of credit risk and derives the limit distribution of losses under different … results obtained indicate that if firm-specific risk exposures (including their default thresholds) are heterogeneous but come … from a common parameter distribution, for sufficiently large portfolios there is no scope for further risk reduction …

papers that were presented at the 2011 Madrid International Conference on “Risk Modelling and Management” (RMM2011). The … papers cover the following topics: currency hedging strategies using dynamic multivariate GARCH, risk management of risk … under the Basel Accord: A Bayesian approach to forecasting value-at-risk of VIX futures, fast clustering of GARCH processes …

We study the implications of the value at risk concept for the bank's optimum amount of equity capital under credit … risk. The market value of loans is risky and lognormally distributed. We show that the required equity capital depends upon …

A strategically minded CFO will realize that strategic corporate risk management is about finding the right balance … between risk prevention and proactive value generation. Efficient risk and performance management requires adequate assessment … of risk and risk exposures on the one hand and performance on the other. Properly designed, a risk measure should provide …

[...] The objective of this study is to analyse - relying on 2006 data - FX settlement risk that may arise in the … reports to analyse FX settlement risk in the credit institution sector, along with all its consequences for financial … the first chapter we will demonstrate how FX settlement risk is treated among other risks to which banks are exposed …

-quality systematic risk factors from these data. This paper first documents that appropriately screened data from Thomson Reuters … momentum risk factor (as existing work has suggested), but also the widely-used U.S. size and value risk factors. We then build … novel pan-European and country-specific momentum, size, and value risk factors. By comparing our pan-European market returns …

Research on risk communication relates basic risk perception studies to the formulation of policies, the currently … evolving legislation dealing with hazards, the key issues of public involvement, the risk and environmental management. Risk … communication is a relatively new field based on a sociological approach. The discipline comes from risk perception studies …

Research on risk communication relates basic risk perception studies to the formulation of policies, the currently … evolving legislation dealing with hazards, the key issues of public involvement, the risk and environmental management. Risk … communication is a relatively new field based on a sociological approach. The discipline comes from risk perception studies …

, smooth and stabilize consumption as well as minimize portfolio risk. In this context we also show how the correlation between …