MICHAEL B. MILLER is the founder and CEO of Northstar Risk Corp. Before starting Northstar, Mr. Miller was Chief Risk Officer for Tremblant Capital and, before that, Head of Quantitative Risk Management at Fortress Investment Group.

Mr. Miller is the author of Mathematics and Statistics for Financial Risk Management, now in its second edition, and, along with Emanuel Derman, The Volatility Smile. He is also an adjunct professor at Columbia University and the co-chair of the Global Association of Risk Professional's Research Fellowship Committee. Before starting his career in finance, Mr. Miller studied economics at the American University of Paris and the University of Oxford.

Preface vii

About the Author ix

1 Overview of Financial Risk Management 1

2 Market Risk: Standard Deviation 15

3 Market Risk: Value at Risk 51

4 Market Risk: Expected Shortfall, and Extreme ValueTheory 73

5 Market Risk: Portfolios and Correlation 91

6 Market Risk: Beyond Correlation 119

7 Market Risk: Risk Attribution 151

8 CreditRisk 167

9 Liquidity Risk 189

10 Bayesian Analysis 205

11 Behavioral Economics and Risk 231

Appendix A Maximum Likelihood Estimation 247

Appendix B Copulas 253

Answers to End-of-Chapter Questions 257

References 295

Index 297

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