A clear understanding of what we know, don't know, and can't know should guide any reasonable approach to managing financial risk, yet the most widely used measure in finance today--Value at Risk, or VaR--reduces these risks to a single number, creating a false sense of security among risk...

Chapter1:Records and Information Management for Financial Analysis and Risk Management -- Chapter 2: Monitoring Financial Stability in a Complex World -- Chapter 3: The Office of Financial Research and Operation Risk -- Chapter 4: Using Conceptual Models to Theorize about the Relationship...