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Value at Risk and Bank Capital Management
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Value at Risk and Bank Capital Management

by Francesco Saita
February 2007
Intermediate to advanced
280 pages
15h 37m
English
Academic Press
Content preview from Value at Risk and Bank Capital Management
CHAPTER
8
Risk-Adjusted Performance Measurement
A risk-adjusted performance (RAP) measure is a profi tability measure that jointly takes
into consideration the margin or profi t produced by a business and its capital at risk (CaR).
As noted in Chapter 6, we use CaR to refer to a one-year equivalent (if translation from
subannual to annual data is necessary) of the VaR measures we discussed earlier in the
book.
Perhaps the most well-known RAP measure is RAROC (risk-adjusted return on
capital), which can generally be defi ned as the ratio between the profi t and CaR for a
given business area/unit. Another frequently used performance measure is Econom ...
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