Limit search to available items
Book Cover
E-book

Title Risk measures and attitudes / Francesca Biagini, Andreas Richter, Harris Schlesinger, editors
Published London ; New York : Springer, ©2013

Copies

Description 1 online resource
Series EAA Series-textbook, 1869-6929
EAA series - Textbook.
Contents Risk attitudes -- Weak Closedness of Monotone Sets of Lotteries and Robust Representation of Risk Preferences / Patrick Cheridito, Samuel Drapeau, Michael Kupper -- Multivariate Concave and Convex Stochastic Dominance / Michel Denuit, Louis Eeckhoudt, Ilia Tsetlin, Robert L. Winkler -- Downside Risk -- Reliable Quantification and Efficient Estimation of Credit Risk / Jörn Dunkel, Stefan Weber -- Diffusion-Based Models for Financial Markets Without Martingale Measures / Claudio Fontana, Wolfgang J. Runggaldier
Summary Risk has been described in the past by a simple measure, such as the variance, and risk attitude is often considered simply a degree of risk aversion. However, this viewpoint is usually not sufficient. Risk Measures and Attitudes collects contributions which illustrate how modern approaches to both risk measures and risk attitudes are inevitably intertwined. The settings under which this is discussed include portfolio choice, mitigating credit risk and comparing risky alternatives. This book will be a useful study aid for practitioners, students and researchers of actuarial science and risk management
Analysis Mathematics
Finance
Distribution (Probability theory)
Actuarial Sciences
Quantitative Finance
Applications of Mathematics
Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Financial risk.
Financial risk management.
Finanzas -- Gestión de riesgos
Financial risk
Financial risk management
Form Electronic book
Author Biagini, Francesca.
Richter, Andreas
Schlesinger, Harris.
ISBN 9781447149262
1447149262
1447149254
9781447149255