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Model Risk

Concepts, Calibration and Pricing

Publication Date June 2000
Publisher Risk Books
Product Type Book
Pages 361
ISBN Number 1899332898
Product Code RIS00289
Model Risk
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Summary

Provides an assessment of various models, examining the weaknesses and provides methods to mitigate potential model failures and deficiencies.

Covers the testing of models, what should be tested and what the parameters should be.

Core contribution selected and introduced by Professor Ranja Gibson, Universite de Lausanne

Content

  • Introduction
  • Rajna Gibson
  • Overview: Model Risk
    • Michel Crouhy, Dan Galai and Robert Mark
  • Derivatives Pricing and Hedging under Model Risk
    • Market Risk and Model Risk for a Financial Institution Writing Options
      • Stephen Figlewski and Clifton T. Green
    • Contingent Claim Models with Deterministic Volatility: Model Error vs. Poor Estimation
      • Eric Jacquier and Robert Jarrow
    • Empirical Performance of Alternative Option Pricing Models
      • Gurdip Bakshi, Charles Cao and Zhiwu Chen
    • New Insights into Smile, Mis-pricing and Value-at-Risk: The Hyperbolic Model
      • Ernst Eberlein, Ulrich Keller and Karsten Prause
    • Market Illiquidity as a Source of Model Risk in Dynamic Hedging
      • Rdiger Frey
  • Model Risk and Interest Rate Risk
    • The Stochastic Volatility of Short-Term Interest Rates: Some International Evidence
    • Clifford A. Ball and Walter N. Torous
    • Is the Short Rate Drift Actually Nonlinear?
      • David A. Chapman and Neil D. Pearson
    • Model Risk with Jump-Diffusion Processes
      • Aydin Akgun
  • Var Methodologies under Model Risk
    • Evaluating Value-at-Risk Methodologies: Accuracy versus Computational Time
      • Matthew Pritsker
    • A Comparison of Analytical VAR Methodologies for Portfolios that Include Options
      • Stefan Pichler and Karl Selitsch
    • A Comparative Anatomy of Credit Risk Models
      • Michael B. Gordy
    • Regulatory Evaluation of Value-at-Risk Models
      • Jose A. Lopez
    • Risk Capital and VAR
      • Paul H. Kupiec
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