Financial Market Risk : Measurement and Analysis

ISBN-13: 9780415278669 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 496 str.

Cornelis Albertus Los; Cornelis Los

Opis

This title uses advanced signal processing technology to measure and analyse risk phenomena of the financial markets. It explains how to scientifically measure, analyse and manage non-stationarity and long-term time dependence (long memory) of financial market returns. It studies, in particular, financial crises in persistent financial markets, such as stock, bond and real estate market, and turbulence in antipersistent financial markets, such as anchor currency markets. It uses Windowed Fourier and Wavelet Multiresolution Analysis to measure the degrees of persistence of these complex markets, by computing monofractal Hurst exponents and multifractal singularity spectra. It explains how and why financial crises and financial turbulence may occur in the various markets and why we may have to reconsider the current wave of term structure modelling based on affine models. It also uses these persistence measurements to improve the financial risk management of global investment funds, via numerical simulations of the nonlinear diffusion equations describing the underlying high frequency dynamic pricing processes.

Spis treści

Part I: Financial Risk Processes 1. Risk: Asset Class, Horizon, and Time2. Competing Financial Market Hypotheses3. Stable Scaling Distributions in Finance4. Persistence of Financial RiskPart II: Financial Risk Measurement 5. Frequency Analysis of Financial Risk6. Fourier Time - Frequency Analysis of Risk7. Wavelet Time - Scale Analysis of Risk8. Multiresolution Analysis of Local RiskPart III: Term Structure Dynamics 9. Chaos: Nonunique Equilibrium Processes10. Measuring Term Structure Dynamics11. Financial Turbulence: Measurement and SimulationPart 4: Financial Risk Management 12. Managing VaR and Extreme Values

O autorze

Cornelis A. Los is Associate Professor of Finance at Kent State University, USA. In the past he has been a Senior Economist of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and of Nomura Research Institute (America), Inc., and Chief Economist of ING Bank, New York. He has also been a Professor in Finance at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore and at Adelaide and Deakin Universities in Australia.