Each financial crisis calls for - by its novelty and the mechanisms it shares with preceding crises - appropriate means to analyze financial risks. In Extreme Financial Risks and Asset Allocation, the authors present in an accessible and timely manner the concepts, methods, and techniques that...

Key Features:This book offers an excellent synthesis of the academic literature in a clear, ordered, and intuitive wayThe continuous-time theory of the choice of portfolio is exposed with particular care when asset dynamics are modeled with processes admitting a jump component. This is a...