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Risk Management
and Financial
Institutions
Fourth Edition
JOHN C. HULL
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Contents in Brief
BusinessSnapshots xxi
Preface xxiii
Chapter1:Introduction 1
PARTONE:FINANCIALINSTITUTIONSANDTHEIRTRADING
Chapter2:Banks 25
Chapter3:InsuranceCompaniesandPensionPlans 45
Chapter4:MutualFundsandHedgeFunds 71
Chapter5:TradinginFinancialMarkets 93
Chapter6:TheCreditCrisisof2007 121
Chapter7:ValuationandScenarioAnalysis:TheRisk-NeutralandRealWorlds 137
PARTTWO:MARKETRISK
Chapter8:HowTradersManageTheirRisks 153
Chapter9:InterestRateRisk 175
Chapter10:Volatility 201
Chapter11:CorrelationsandCopulas 231
Chapter12:ValueatRiskandExpectedShortfall 255
Chapter13:HistoricalSimulationandExtremeValueTheory 277
Chapter14:Model-BuildingApproach 299
PARTTHREE:REGULATION
Chapter15:BaselI,BaselII,andSolvencyII 325
Chapter16:BaselII.5,BaselIII,andOtherPost-CrisisChanges 353
Chapter17:FundamentalReviewoftheTradingBook 373
PARTFOUR:CREDITRISK
Chapter18:ManagingCreditRisk:Margin,OTCMarkets,andCCPs 383
Chapter19:EstimatingDefaultProbabilities 401
Chapter20:CVAandDVA 429
Chapter21:CreditValueatRisk 447
PARTFIVE:OTHERTOPICS
Chapter22:ScenarioAnalysisandStressTesting 463
Chapter23:OperationalRisk 481
Chapter24:LiquidityRisk 501
Chapter25:ModelRisk 527
Chapter26:EconomicCapitalandRAROC 547
Chapter27:EnterpriseRiskManagement 565
Chapter28:RiskManagementMistakestoAvoid 579
PARTSIX:APPENDICES
Appendices 591
AnswerstoQuestionsandProblems 629
Glossary 669
DerivaGemSoftware 689
TablesforN(x) 695
Index 699
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