Beyond Value at Risk: The New Science of Risk Management by Kevin Dowd

by Kevin Dowd

Risk measurement and management is the most important issue in finance today. This book examines the concepts underlying the main tools and techniques used by financial institutions to quantify their risk exposure. Quantifying risk exposure is not only a management tool, but a regulatory requirement for banks and investment houses.

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First published May 5, 1998

About the author

Kevin Dowd is an economist with research interests in private money and free banking, monetary and macro economics, financial risk measurement and management, risk disclosure, political economy and policy analysis, pensions and mortality modelling. He is currently Professor of Finance and Economics at Durham University Business School and a partner in Cobden Partners based in London.