Hrishikesh Vinod (Rick), Derrick Reagle

Preparing for the Worst

Incorporating Downside Risk in Stock Market Investments

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A timely approach to downside risk and its role in stock market investments
When dealing with the topic of risk analysis, most books on investments treat downside and upside risk equally. Preparing for the Worst takes an entirely novel approach by focusing on downside risk and explaining how to incorporate it into investment decisions. Highlighting this asymmetry of the stock market, the authors describe how existing theories miss the downside and follow with explanations of how it can be included. Various techniques for calculating downside risk are demonstrated.

This book presents the latest ideas in the field from the ground up, making the discussion accessible to mathematicians and statisticians interested in applications in finance, as well as to finance professionals who may not have a mathematical background. An invaluable resource for anyone wishing to explore the critical issues of finance, portfolio management, and securities pricing, this book:

Incorporates Value at Risk into the theoretical discussion
Uses many examples to illustrate downside risk in U.S., international, and emerging market investments
Addresses downside risk arising from fraud and corruption
Includes step-by-step instructions on how to implement the methods introduced in this book
Offers advice on how to avoid pitfalls in calculations and computer programming
Provides software use information and tips

Produktdetails

• Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics
• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Oktober 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 243mm x 154mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 560g
• ISBN-13: 9780471234425
• ISBN-10: 0471234427
• Artikelnr.: 13057966

Autorenporträt

HRISHIKESH D. VINOD, PhD, is Director of the Institute for Ethics and Economic Policy and Professor of Economics at Fordham University in New York. He is also a Fellow of the International Institute of Public Ethics and of the Journal of Econometrics. DERRICK P. REAGLE, PhD, is Associate Chair for Graduate Studies in the Department of Economics at Fordham University.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures. List of Tables. Preface. 1. Quantitative Measures of the
Stock Market. 1.1. Pricing Future Cash Flows. 1.2. The Expected Return.
1.3. Volatility. 1.4. Modeling of Stock Price Diffusion. 1.5. Efficient
Market Hypothesis. Appendix: Simple Regression Analysis. 2. A Short Review
of the Theory of Risk Measurement. 2.1. Quantiles and Value at Risk. 2.2.
CAPM Beta, Sharpe, and Treynor Performance Measures. 2.3. When You Assume .
. . . 2.4. Extensions of the CAPM. Appendix: Estimating the Distribution
from the Pearson Family of Distributions. 3. Hedging to Avoid Market Risk.
3.1. Derivative Securities: Futures, Options. 3.2. Valuing Derivative
Securities. 3.3. Option Pricing Under Jump Diffusion. 3.4. Implied
Volatility and the Greeks. Appendix: Drift and Diffusion. 4. Monkey Wrench
in the Works: When the Theory Fails. 4.1. Bubbles, Reversion, and Patterns.
4.2. Modeling Volatility or Variance Explicitly. 4.3. Testing for
Normality. 4.4. Alternative Distributions. 5. Downside Risk. 5.1. VaR and
Downside Risk. 5.2. Lower Partial Moments (Standard Deviation, Beta,
Sharpe, and Treynor). 5.3. Implied Volatility and Other Measures of
Downside Risk. 6. Portfolio Valuation and Utility Theory. 6.1. Utility
Theory. 6.2. Nonexpected Utility Theory. 6.3. Incorporating Utility Theory
into Risk Measurement and Stochastic Dominance. 6.4. Incorporating Utility
Theory into Option Valuation. 6.5. Forecasting Returns Using Nonlinear
Structures and Neural Networks. 7. Incorporating Downside Risk. 7.1.
Investor Reactions. 7.2. Patterns of Downside Risk. 7.3. Downside Risk in
Stock Valuations and Worldwide Investing. 7.4. Downside Risk Arising from
Fraud, Corruption, and International Contagion. 8. Mathematical Techniques.
8.1. Matrix Algebra. 8.2. Matrix-Based Derivation of the Efficient
Portfolio. 8.3. Principal Components Analysis, Factor Analysis, and
Singular Value Decomposition. 8.4. Ito's Lemma. 8.5. Creation of Risk-Free
Nonrandom g(S, t) as a Hedge Portfolio. 8.6. Derivation of Black-Scholes
Partial Differential Equation. 8.7. Risk-Neutral Case. 9. Computational
Issues. 9.1. Sampling, Compounding, and Other Data Issues in Finance. 9.2.
Numerical Procedures. 9.3. Simulations and Bootstrapping. Appendix A:
Regression Specification, Estimation, and Software Issues. Appendix B:
Maximum Likelihood Estimation Issues. Appendix C: Maximum Entropy (ME)
Bootstrap for State-Dependent Time Series of Returns. 10. What Does It All
Mean? Glossary of Greek Symbols. Glossary of Notations. Glossary of
Abbreviations. References. Name Index. Index.

Rezensionen

"...most students in market finance would benefit from using it as an introduction to downside risks." ( Journal of the American Statistical Association , December 2005)
"...presents the latest ideas in the field from the ground up..." ( Zentralblatt MATH , Vol. 1064 (15), 2005)