The final master thesis applies reseach on the common issues analysis regarding operational risk management at the commercial bank, highlights risk measurement tools and identifies the key goals of OR management activity. The analysis is applied to the bibliograpical entries defining operational...

Value at Risk and the Expected Shortfall are two measurements of market risks for financial assets. Statistically, they are extreme quantiles of the distribution of financial log returns. Though financial log return data are usually both heteroscedastic and fatter-tailed, most of the existing...

Economics

The primary purpose of this dissertation is to investigate the behavior of the elements of the foreign exchange market, the largest financial market in the world. Whilst the market itself is not new, the concept of currency as an alternative asset, is. Apart from growing awareness of the...

The objective of this paper is to determine how relative market and credit risk changes among European sectors during times of extreme market fluctuations. Ten sectors comprising the S&P Euro index are compared prior to and during the Global Financial Crisis (GFC). Market risk is measured using...

Modern societies are facing energy and environmental challenges. In a framework of climate change, escalating global energy consumption, declining fossil sources and uncertainties regarding future supply, one key question of the 21st century is how to secure a clean and efficient power...

Banking has a unique role in the well-being of an economy. This role makes banksone of the most heavily regulated and supervised industries. In order to strengthenthe soundness and stability of banking systems, regulators require banks to holdadequate capital. While credit risk was the only risk...

In dieser Arbeit setzen wir uns mit den Auswirkungen von Risikobeschränkungen auf das optimale Verhalten eines Investors auseinander, welcher versucht, den erwarteten Endnutzen zu einem festgelegten Zeitpunkt zu maximieren. Dazu kann er ein vorgegebenes Anfangsvermögen in einem Markt...

This paper seeks to characterize the distribution of extreme returns for US, UK and Japanese equity indices over the years 1963–2000. In particular, the suitability of the following distributions is investigated: Normal, Frechet, Gumbel, Weibull, Generalized Extreme Value (GEV), Generalized...