Product Description

This unique resource provides simulation techniques for financial risk managers ensuring you become well versed in many recent innovations, including Gibbs sampling, the use of heavy-tailed distributions in VaR calculations, construction of volatility smile, and state space modeling. The authors illustrate key concepts with examples and case studies you can reproduce using either S-PLUS® or Visual Basic® and provide exercises so you can apply new concepts and test your knowledge.

Simulation Techniques in Financial Risk Management is invaluable both as a resource for risk managers in the financial and actuarial industries and as a coursebook for upper-level undergraduate and graduate courses in simulation and risk management.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #113167 in Books
• Published on: 2006-04-12
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 240 pages

Review
"…a wonderful book and strongly recommended for practitioners in the field." (Technometrics, May 2007)

"…a nice, self-contained introduction to simulation and computational techniques in finance…interesting for practitioners…a valuable source for graduate courses…" (Mathematical Reviews, 2007c)

"...a wonderful book and strongly recommended for practitioners in the field." (Technometrics, May 2007) "...a nice, self-contained introduction to simulation and computational techniques in finance...interesting for practitioners...a valuable source for graduate courses..." (Mathematical Reviews, 2007c)

From the Back Cover
A unique resource of simulation techniques designed for financial risk managers

Simulation Techniques in Financial Risk Management takes a unique approach to the field of simulations by focusing on techniques needed by practitioners in the financial and risk management industries. Key concepts are illustrated with extensive use of examples and case studies in finance and risk management; readers can then reproduce the results of the studies using either S-PLUS® or Visual Basic®.

The book consists of three parts:

• Part One presents the basic ideas of Wiener processes and Itô's calculus. These two topics are discussed from an operational perspective, which helps readers to appreciate the complexity and importance of stochastic calculus and its relationship to simulations.
• Part Two constitutes the core of an introductory course in risk management. Standard topics from a traditional course in simulation are covered. Examples are provided throughout to illustrate the use of simulation techniques in risk management.
• Part Three introduces advanced topics in simulations and risk management. Helpful case studies address practical issues, such as the pricing of exotic options, simulations of Greeks in hedging, and the use of Bayesian ideas to assess the impact of jumps.

Readers become well versed in many of the recent innovations in simulations and risk management, such as Gibbs sampling, the use of heavy-tailed distributions in VaR calculations, construction of volatility smile, and state space modeling. Exercises at the end of each chapter provide the opportunity for readers to apply new concepts and test their knowledge. Answers for selected exercises offer additional insights to help readers consolidate their understanding.

This text is an invaluable resource for risk managers in the financial and actuarial industries and will help them to better gauge risk and make more informed decisions. Moreover, it is recommended as a coursebook for upper-level undergraduate and graduate courses in simulation and risk management.

About the Author
NGAI HANG CHAN, PhD, is Chairman and Professor of Statistics of the Department of Statistics at The Chinese University of Hong Kong where he was formerly Director of the Risk Management Science Program. He is an elected Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, the author of Time Series: Applications to Finance (Wiley), and is also the associate editor of six journals. His research interests include statistical finance, risk management, time series, econometrics, and stochastic modeling.

HOI-YING WONG, PhD, is Assistant Professor in the Risk Management Science Program of the Department of Statistics at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. His research interests include derivatives pricing, interest rate modeling, financial risk management, and statistical finance.

Customer Reviews

Perfect book for practitioners
Perfect practical focus on the fat tail distribution using GED function with nice Matlab examples. Saves time at the developing stage.

Nice balance of programming and theory
I like this book to be a handy reference when working on VAR analysis. The examples are very much relevant and there is no need to hunt around different sources

Bypass this one
The book claims to be between Ross's "Simulation" and Glasserman's "Monte Carlo Methods in Financial Engineering" (both first-class books). Would that the same could be said of this sorry-looking text. I will be charitable and descibe it as watered-down Glasserman with some S-Plus code thrown in for good measure, and some material nicked from Ross. Wiley should be more careful about what it accepts for publication.