The Basel II Accord on Measuring and Managing a Bank's Risks

The abundance of risk metrics stems from the effort to measure the difference between the expected and actual returns, under a hypothesis of normality. Under the assumption of risk aversion, investors are likely to quantify risk using metrics which measure returns lower than the expected average. Th...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Ion Stancu, Andrei Tinca
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: General Association of Economists from Romania 2007-11-01
Series:Theoretical and Applied Economics
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Online Access:http://www.ectap.ro/articole/260.pdf