European Master and Certification Program
in Risk Engineering and Management

B10/F5-2:
Workshop: Business Continuity and Financial Risks

Course code: 181782
Language of instruction: English
Lecturers: Ph.D. Reto Schneider (SWICA Gesundheitsorganisation), Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Dirk Linowski (Steinbeis University Berlin), Dipl.-Kfm. Jacob Kleinow (TU Bergakademie Freiberg The University of Resources)
Assessment: Defined in the module

Short description

Practical examples with the state-of-art tools are applied by the student.

Objectives

Participants are expected to: 

-Know how to run the value-at-risk model and the conditional value at-risk model
-Interpret the results appropriately

Applications refer to asset portfolios, medium and lage sized companies, and national economies, respectively.


Target Attendees / Participants

Students of Steinbeis Master of International Business and Risk Engineering and similar programs

Course Content by Units

Collecting and organizing the ‘right’ data

Performance of goodness-of-fit tests

Computation of the risk measures for different confidence levels and time horizons, respectively

Discussion and interpretation



Teaching Methods

Guided application of learned concepts through state-of-art tools.
Case study.

Literature

-Aswath Damodaran (2007). Strategic Risk Taking: A Framework for Risk Management, Pearson Prentice Hall
-P. Best (1999). Implementing Value at Risk (Wiley Series in Financial Engineering), Wiley
-Carol Alexander (2009). Market Risk Analysis, Value at Risk Models (Volume IV), Wiley
-Gunter Loeffler, Peter N. Posch (2007). Credit Risk Modeling using Excel and VBA (The Wiley Finance Series)
-Marco Corazza, Pizzi Claudio (2010). Mathematical and Statistical Methods for Actuarial Sciences and Finance, Springer
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(Course profile ID: B10/F5-2:, generated on January 15, 2025)