these options. The signs of the estimated risk premia are consistent with theory, their economic magnitudes show that a long …

[Update: Within four weeks of the original publication of this research report, Risk Magazine reported in its 28th … February 2012 issue story titled 'Goodbye VaR? Basel to Consider Other Risk Metrics': "A review of trading book capital rules …, due to be launched in March by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, will consider ditching value-at-risk as the …

In aftermath of the Financial Crisis, some risk management practitioners advocate wider adoption of Bayesian inference … to replace Value-at-Risk (VaR) models for minimizing risk failures (Borison & Hamm, 2010). They claim reliance of …-Bayesian and [increasingly] Bayesian – continues to be a key methodological foundation of risk management and regulation related …

Risk evaluation is a forecast, and its validity must be backtested. Probability distribution forecasts are used in this … correlation), and that the bivariate forecasts provided by a risk methodology based on historical innovations performs correctly …

In the aftermath of the Global Financial Crisis, some risk management practitioners have advocated wider adoption of … Bayesian inference to replace Value- at-Risk (VaR) models in order to minimize risk failures. Despite its limitations, the … [increasingly] Bayesian—continues to be a key methodological foundation of risk management and regulation-related risk modeling …

The Euler allocation scheme is a well-suited risk management tool that meets the three axioms of capital allocation …: diversification, continuity, and RORAC compatible. However, the Euler allocation scheme of the risk measure VaR meets the desirable … property of portfolio-invariance only under the asymptotically single-risk-factor model (ASRF) framework. Without portfolio …