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Risk and Financial Catastrophe

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  • © 2009

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Authors:
  1. Erik Banks
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Part of the book series: Finance and Capital Markets Series (FCMS)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. The Nature of Catastrophe

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Taxonomy of Risk

      • Erik Banks
      Pages 3-20

    3. Catastrophes

      • Erik Banks
      Pages 21-42

    4. Financial Catastrophe

      • Erik Banks
      Pages 43-74

  3. The Risk Framework

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 75-75
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    2. The Risk Management Process

      • Erik Banks
      Pages 77-96

    3. Models, Metrics, and Limitations

      • Erik Banks
      Pages 97-118

  4. Practical Management

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 119-119
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    2. Past Catastrophes

      • Erik Banks
      Pages 121-164

    3. Lessons Learned and Prescriptive Measures

      • Erik Banks
      Pages 165-185

    4. The Future of Risk Management

      • Erik Banks
      Pages 186-192

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 193-213
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The risk process commonly used in the corporate world to deal with risks may be suitable for non-catastrophic events, but not for extreme events. By analyzing a series of past disasters and the relevant 'lessons learned', this books proposes a series of prescriptive measures to cope with future disasters.

About the author

ERIK BANKS is responsible for group market risk and investment banking credit risk at the European universal bank UniCredit. Over the past 23 years, he has held senior risk positions at Citibank, Merrill Lynch and in the hedge fund sector, in New York, Tokyo, Hong Kong, London and Munich. He is the author of more than 20 books on risk, derivatives, emerging markets and governance.

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