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ECONOMIC CAPITAL
Economic Capital
How It Works, and What Every Manager Needs to Know
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By
Pieter Klaassen, Managing Director of Firmwide Risk Aggregation at UBS A.G. He holds a PhD in operations research from the MIT Sloan School of Management.
Idzard van Eeghen, Group Senior Vice President of Integrated Risk Management at ABNAMRO Bank N.V. Mr. Eeghen holds two degrees: masters in economics and masters in financial economics.

Description


Managers can deploy and manage economic capital more effectively when they understand how their decisions add value to their organizations. Economic Capital: How It Works and What Every Manager Needs to Know presents new ways to define, measure, and implement management strategies by using recent examples, many from the sub-prime crisis. The authors also discuss the role of economic capital within the broader context of management responsibilities and activities as well as its relation to other risk management tools that are available to the modern risk manager.





Audience


Senior managers in banks, insurers, supervisors and regulators, risk professionals, and analysts



Contents
Chapter 1: Measuring the Unexpected: Understanding Economic Capital Chapter 2: Show Me the Money: The Purpose of Economic Capital Chapter 3: You Manage What You Measure: Defining Economic Capital Chapter 4: Running the Numbers: Measuring Economic Capital Chapter 5: Facing Reality: Implementing Economic Capital Chapter 6: Team play: Economic Capital and its Context Chapter 7: What's Next? The Future of Economic Capital

Bibliographic details
Hardbound, 304 pages, publication date: JUN-2009
ISBN-13: 978-0-12-374901-7
Imprint: ELSEVIER

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