Risk Management Using Coherent Measures of Risk

David Heath
Carnegie Mellon University
Dept. of Math Sciences

This talk concerns how shareholders and regulators can express their preferences about risk taking behavior through the use of (extended) coherent measures of risk. We discuss the resulting linear programming problem which the firm faces. We propose a way to manage the firm in a decentralized way, involving the use of internal markets for risk limits, and show that one equilibrium for this internal market gives the optimal portfolio for the firm.

Presentation (PowerPoint File)

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