《The Known, the Unknown, and the Unknowable in Financial Risk Management》是Princeton University Press出版的圖書，作者是Francis X. Diebold , Neil A. Doherty , Richard J. Herring
基本介紹
- ISBN：9780691128832
- 作者：Francis X. Diebold , Neil A. Doherty , Richard J. Herring
- 出版社：Princeton University Press
- 出版時間：2010年5月9日
- 頁數：390
- 定價：USD 87.50
- 裝幀：Hardcover
內容簡介
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 managers, executives, and regulators. This book introduces a more realistic and holisti...(展開全部) 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 managers, executives, and regulators. This book introduces a more realistic and holistic framework called KuU - the Known, the unknown, and the Unknowable - that enables one to conceptualize the different kinds of financial risks and design effective strategies for managing them. Bringing together contributions by leaders in finance and economics, this book pushes toward robustifying policies, portfolios, contracts, and organizations to a wide variety of KuU risks. Along the way, the strengths and limitations of "quantitative" risk management are revealed. In addition to the editors, the contributors are Ashok Bardhan, Dan Borge, Charles N. Bralver, Riccardo Colacito, Robert H. Edelstein, Robert F. Engle, Charles A. E. Goodhart, Clive W. J. Granger, Paul R. Kleindorfer, Donald L. Kohn, Howard Kunreuther, Andrew Kuritzkes, Robert H. Litzenberger, Benoit B. Mandelbrot, David M. Modest, Alex Muermann, Mark V. Pauly, Til Schuermann, Kenneth E. Scott, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, and Richard J. Zeckhauser. It introduces a new risk-management paradigm. It features contributions by leaders in finance and economics. It demonstrates how "killer risks" are often more economic than statistical, and crucially linked to incentives. It shows how to invest and design policies amid financial uncerta
