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Measuring and Managing Federal Financial Risk
D Lucas
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Description for Measuring and Managing Federal Financial Risk
Hardcover. The US government is the world's largest financial institution, providing credit and assuming risk through diverse activities. But the potential cost and risk of these actions and obligations remains poorly understood and only partially measured. This book contains research on the measurement and management of these costs and risks. Editor(s): Lucas, Deborah. Series: National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Report. Num Pages: 272 pages, 38 line drawings, 29 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; KFFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 476.
The U.S. government is the world's largest financial institution, providing credit and assuming risk through diverse activities. But the potential cost and risk of these actions and obligations remains poorly understood and only partially measured. Government budgetary and financial accounting rules, which largely determine the information available to federal decision makers, have only just begun to address these issues. Recently, however, there has been a push to rethink how these programs are valued and accounted for, and some progress has been made in applying modern valuation methods - such as options pricing, risk-adjusted discount rates, and value at risk - ... Read more
The U.S. government is the world's largest financial institution, providing credit and assuming risk through diverse activities. But the potential cost and risk of these actions and obligations remains poorly understood and only partially measured. Government budgetary and financial accounting rules, which largely determine the information available to federal decision makers, have only just begun to address these issues. Recently, however, there has been a push to rethink how these programs are valued and accounted for, and some progress has been made in applying modern valuation methods - such as options pricing, risk-adjusted discount rates, and value at risk - ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Series
National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Report
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226496580
SKU
V9780226496580
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About D Lucas
At the time this work was completed, Deborah Lucas was the Donald C. Clark HSBC Professor of Consumer Finance at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, and a research associate of the NBER.
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