This book is a guide to asset and risk management from a practical point of view. It is centered around two questions … triggered by the global events on the stock markets since the middle of the last decade: - Why do crashes happen when in theory … they should not? - How do investors deal with such crises in terms of their risk measurement and management and, as a …

One important source of systemic risk can arise from asset commonality among financial institutions. This indirect … portfolios. In this paper, we propose a new methodology for identifying and assessing banking sector systemic risk stemming from … compute bank portfolio sensitivities to a large number of risk factors (e.g. interest rates, equity prices, credit spreads …

This study evaluates the sensitivity and robustness of the systemic risk measure, Conditional Value-at-Risk (CoVaR … the vine copula and APARCH-DCC in assessing portfolio systemic risk. This advanced approach provides nuanced insights into … strengthening risk management practices. Future research could explore the sensitivity of the CoVaR to diferent weighting schemes …

We examine the pricing of tail risk in international stock markets. We find that the tail risk of different countries … mainly driven by global tail risk rather than local tail risk. World fear is also priced in the crosssection of stock returns …