Concept of Value at Risk (VaR)

Seminar paper from the year 2013 in the subject Business economics - Banking, Stock Exchanges, Insurance, Accounting, grade: 2,0, University of Hohenheim, language: English, abstract: How is it possible to manage or measure such a hard to defining term like „risk“? To solve this problem and giving stakeholders a tool to measure their individual risk or to compare it, an empirical risk measurer cal...