Title: Elements of Financial Risk Management / Edition 2
Author: Peter Christoffersen
ISBN-10: 0123744482
ISBN-13: 9780123744487
The Second Edition of this best-selling book expands its advanced approach to financial risk models by covering market, credit, and integrated risk. With new data that cover the recent financial crisis, it combines Excel-based empirical exercises at the end of each chapter with online exercises so readers can use their own data. Its unified GARCH modeling approach, empirically sophisticated and relevant yet easy to implement, sets this book apart from others. Five new chapters and updated end-of-chapter questions and exercises, as well as Excel-solutions manual, support its step-by-step approach to choosing tools and solving problems. Examines market risk, credit risk, and operational risk Provides exceptional coverage of GARCH models Features online Excel-based empirical exercises Audience: This book is intended for three types of readers with an interest in financial risk management. First, Master’s and Ph.D. students specializing in finance and economics. Second, market practitioners with a quantitative undergraduate or graduate degree. Third, a small group of advanced undergraduates majoring in either economics, engineering, finance, or another quantitative field. Realistically, the book will best suit those in financial engineering courses who have strong quantitative backgrounds and those in Ph.D. courses.
