The Known, the Unknown, and the Unknowable in Financial Risk Management: Measurement and Theory Advancing Practice,New

The Known, the Unknown, and the Unknowable in Financial Risk Management: Measurement and Theory Advancing Practice,New

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A clear understanding of what we know, don't know, and can't know should guide any reasonable approach to managing financial risk, yet the most widely used measure in finance todayValue at Risk, or VaRreduces these risks to a single number, creating a false sense of security among risk managers, executives, and regulators. This book introduces a more realistic and holistic framework calledKuUtheKnown, theunknown, and theUnknowablethat enables one to conceptualize the different kinds of financial risks and design effective strategies for managing them. Bringing together contributions by leaders in finance and economics, this book pushes toward robustifying policies, portfolios, contracts, and organizations to a wide variety ofKuUrisks. Along the way, the strengths and limitations of 'quantitative' risk management are revealed.In addition to the editors, the contributors are Ashok Bardhan, Dan Borge, Charles N. Bralver, Riccardo Colacito, Robert H. Edelstein, Robert F. Engle, Charles A. E. Goodhart, Clive W. J. Granger, Paul R. Kleindorfer, Donald L. Kohn, Howard Kunreuther, Andrew Kuritzkes, Robert H. Litzenberger, Benoit B. Mandelbrot, David M. Modest, Alex Muermann, Mark V. Pauly, Til Schuermann, Kenneth E. Scott, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, and Richard J. Zeckhauser.Introduces a new riskmanagement paradigmFeatures contributions by leaders in finance and economicsDemonstrates how 'killer risks' are often more economic than statistical, and crucially linked to incentivesShows how to invest and design policies amid financial uncertainty

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