This book gives a new perspective on how investors and policy makers can analyze risk and vulnerabilities in economies, both emerging market and industrial, by using modern risk management and financial engineering techniques. Using recent advances in this field and the theory of finance, an economic value can be placed on vulnerabilities caused by inter-linkages between different sectors of the economy, the macroeconomic risks due to external shocks quantified, and the value ex-ante of various policy measures to respond to crises calculated.

Risk and risk management can sometimes be misunderstood. There is a view that the prudent approach is to avoid risk by simply maintaining the status quo. Linked to this is the idea that audit is a barrier to risk taking and innovation. Also, spending time developing risk management strategies can sometimes be perceived as mere pointless bureaucracy. Failure to take opportunities can be a huge risk in itself. By not looking at new ways of doing things organizations can miss out on real opportunities to manage better their business, improve servi…

A guide on risk for the hedge fund industry, this title includes a primer on hedge fund risk, and is illustrated with examples. It provides information for risk managers within various types of investment structures like investment banks and others. It is aimed at investment bankers, allocators, dealers, counterparties, prime brokers, and others.

I am convinced that this book will become the prime reference on AIS for many years to come.

* A description of risk management and decision making in the context of a construction project * the human dimension * tools and techniques available to the risk analyst * the problems of procurement and finance * the practical application of risk analysis, including the principles of risk modelling and simulation, together with case studies. * a thorough understanding of these concepts will provide the project manager with the basis for effective decision making.

Most decision making processes involve risk associated with the uncertainty of a range of outcomes that may, or may not, occur at some time in the future. In recent years, many of the recent advances in risk theory have come from the field of financial mathematics. While the latter subject is now well developed I claim that there are still some important aspects of decision-making involving risk that are not covered by the existing theory. In particular, I believe that the following three questions require further investigations. 1. How to ma…

Fully revised and restructured, Measuring Market Risk, Second Edition includes a new chapter on options risk management, as well as substantial new information on parametric risk, non-parametric measurements and liquidity risks, more practical information to help with specific calculations, and new examples including Q&A's and case studies. The accompanying CD-ROM includes a Measuring Market Risk toolbox, with about 150 risk measurement functions, a manual and a selection of Excel workbooks illustrating basic risk measurement functions.

In order to maintain their position in today's competitive marketplace, companies have to constantly evaluate and reevaluate the risk inherent to their business. Because of this, many firms have instituted risk management programs to protect key investments and to implement any changes - this can be difficult for many businesses because of the sheer size and complexity of the task. "Modern Corporate Risk Management" presents practical, forward-thinking solutions to the technical, organizational, cultural, and political problems associated with …

Many of the techniques that drug traffickers and organized crime figures use to launder money are also employed by terrorist groups - as those involved in investigating the attacks of September 11, 2001 soon discovered. These techniques and their perpetrators have grown in number and sophistication, creating an urgent need for investigators to develop strategies that will help keep them one step ahead of the game. Authoritative and accessible, "Money Laundering: A Guide for Criminal Investigators, Second Edition" is based on the author's extens…

At a practical level, mathematical programming under multiple objectives has emerged as a powerful tool to assist in the process of searching for decisions which best satisfy a multitude of conflicting objectives, and there are a number of distinct methodologies for multicriteria decision-making problems that exist. These methodologies can be categorized in a variety of ways, such as form of model (e.g. linear, non-linear, stochastic), characteristics of the decision space (e.g. finite or infinite), or solution process (e.g. prior specification…