Risk measures : in search of the Holy Grail.

In this dissertation, we review the development of risk measures in finance, starting from the traditional risk measures to the more recent downside risk measures. We outline the desirable properties that one should expect form a risk measure. There are several frameworks developed for this and we p...

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Main Authors: Brynjar Bustnes., Koong, Chee Seng., Lee, Ho Sung.
Other Authors: Charoenwong, Charlie
Format: Theses and Dissertations
Published: 2008
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10356/7633
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Institution: Nanyang Technological University
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Summary:In this dissertation, we review the development of risk measures in finance, starting from the traditional risk measures to the more recent downside risk measures. We outline the desirable properties that one should expect form a risk measure. There are several frameworks developed for this and we pay special attention to works of Pedersen and Satchell (1998).