quantitative foundations of financial and risk engineering and its many applications to asset pricing and risk management. Covering …

When measuring market risk, credit institutions and Alternative Investment Fund Managers may deviate from equally … weighting historical data in their Value-at-Risk calculation and instead use an exponential time series weighting. The use of … exponential weighting in the Value-at-Risk calculation is very popular because it takes into account changes in market volatility …

firms and concludes that both the size and book-to-market effects are related to default risk. For example, small firms earn … higher return than big firms only if they have higher default risk and value stocks earn higher returns than growth stocks if … their default risk is high. In this paper we use a more advanced compound option pricing model for the computation of …

Coherent measures of risk defined by the axioms of monotonicity, subadditivity, positive homogeneity, and translation … invariance are recent tools in risk management to assess the amount of risk agents are exposed to. If they also satisfy law … invariance and comonotonic additivity, then we get a subclass of them: spectral measures of risk. Expected shortfall is a well …