Basic statistics for risk management in banks and financial institutions

The book provides an engaging account of theoretical, empirical, and practical aspects of various statistical methods in measuring risks of financial institutions, especially banks. In this book, the author demonstrates how banks can apply many simple but effective statistical techniques to analyze risks they face ...

Essays on risk and uncertainty in economics and finance

This book adds to the resolution of two problems in finance and economics: i) what is macro-financial uncertainty?: How to measure it? How is it different from risk? How important is it for the financial markets? And ii) what sort of asymmetries underlie financial risk ...

Financial modeling in Excel for Dummies

Turn your financial data into insightful decisions with this straightforward guide to financial modeling with Excel Interested in learning how to build practical financial models and forecasts but concerned that you don't have the math skills or technical know-how? We've got you covered ...

The two-headed coin unifying strategy and risk in pursuit of performance

Discover the interplay between strategy and risk in this insightful new resource from two experts in the financial industry who have applied their knowledge to multiple industries In The Two Headed Coin, accomplished authors James L. Darroch and David Wm. Finnie deliver an insightful exploration ...

Análisis de riesgos

Los riesgos son connaturales a las sociedades modernas. Las amenazas relacionadas con los sistemas financieros, los sistemas políticos, las tecnologías de la información, el terrorismo, la seguridad alimentaria, las epidemias o los desastres naturales asociados al cambio climático, entre muchas otras, demandan marcos metodológicos rigurosos ...

Strategic risk management

designing portfolios and managing risk

Having just experienced a global pandemic that sent equity markets into a tailspin in March 2020, risk management is a more relevant topic than ever. It remains, however, an often poorly understood afterthought. Many portfolios are designed without any thought given to risk management before ...

Python para finanzas

Curso práctico

Python para finanzas es un libro teórico-práctico; los dos primeros capítulos comienzan con una contextualización sobre la importancia y la utilidad del lenguaje de programación Python en el mundo de las finanzas y con una introducción sobre los aspectos esenciales para empezar a utilizar esta ...

Machine learning in asset pricing

Investors in financial markets are faced with an abundance of potentially value-relevant information from a wide variety of different sources. In such data-rich, high-dimensional environments, techniques from the rapidly advancing field of machine learning (ML) are well-suited for solving prediction problems. Accordingly, ML methods are ...

Artificial intelligence for asset management and investment

a strategic perspective

The rise of artificial intelligence is nothing short of a technological revolution. AI is poised to completely transform asset management and investment banking, yet its current application within the financial sector is limited and fragmented. Existing AI implementations tend to solve very narrow business issues ...

Big Data Science in Finance

Data science has fundamentally changed Wall Street—applied mathematics and software code are increasingly driving finance and investment-decision tools. Big Data Science in Finance examines the mathematics, theory, and practical use of the revolutionary techniques that are transforming the industry. Designed for mathematically-advanced students and ...

Fixed income trading and risk management

The Complete Guide

Fixed Income Trading and Risk Management: The Complete Guide delivers a comprehensive and innovative exposition of fixed income markets. Written by European Central Bank portfolio manager Alexander During, this book takes a practical view of how several different national fixed income markets operate in detail ...

Teoría del riesgo en seguros y finanzas

1. Modelos de riesgo en seguros

Modelos matemáticos y métodos numéricos en finanzas cuantitativas

con ejercicios y códigos en Python y Matlab

Este libro es un manual especializado sobre la modelización matemática de la evolución de los activos y productos financieros, su valoración y la gestión del riesgo asociado a los mismos. Además de abordar la componente teórica de los conceptos anteriores, en el libro se proponen ...

Teoría del riesgo en seguros y finanzas

2. Modelos de riesgo en finanzas

The Zurich Axioms

If you want to get rich, no matter how inexperienced you are in investment, this book can help you. Its message is that you must not avoid risk, nor court it foolhardily, but learn how to manage it - and enjoy it too. The 12 major ...

Contra los dioses

la extraordinaria historia del riesgo

Peter L. Bernstein (1919-2009), uno de los padres de las teorías modernas de modelización de riesgos, publicó en 1996 su libro Against the Gods: The remarkable story of risk, del que se vendieron más de un millón de ejemplares, convirtiéndose en un clásico en pocos ...

Basel accords, bank capital and portfolio risk behavior

With the endorsement of the Basel III contracts on the supervision of the banking industry, management of capital buffers throughout the business cycle have attained crucial importance for the reinforcement of financial stability in the banking system. This book departs from previous studies through its ...

La paradoja del riesgo

por qué la política económica tendrá que asumir más riesgos si quiere salvarnos de la próxima crisis

Durante décadas, los economistas han estado obsesionados con combatir la inflación, reducir los déficits públicos y desaconsejar a los inversores la asunción de riesgos excesivos. Pero, tras el estallido de la crisis de 2008, esta creencia ha quedado en entredicho. Ante el peor desastre económico ...

Nonparametric finance

Nonparametric function estimation is an important part of machine learning, which is becoming increasingly important in quantitative finance. Nonparametric Finance provides graduate students and finance professionals with a foundation in nonparametric function estimation and the underlying mathematics. Combining practical applications, mathematically rigorous presentation, and statistical ...

Fundamentals of risk management

understanding, evaluating and implementing effective risk management

This fifth edition of Fundamentals of Risk Management is a comprehensive introduction to commercial and business risk for students and risk professionals. Providing extensive coverage of the core frameworks of business continuity planning, enterprise risk management and project risk management, this is the definitive guide ...