Contents
Introduction / vii
Part I: The Products / 1
1. Financial Innovation: Achievements and Prospects / 5
Merton H. Miller
2. The Evolution of Risk Management Products / 18
S. Waite Rawls III and Charles W. Smithson
3. The Revolution in Corporate Risk Management: A De cade of
Innovations in Pro cess and Products / 32
Christopher L. Culp
4. A Se nior Manager’s Guide to Integrated Risk Management / 63
Lisa K. Meulbroek
Part II: Corporate Uses of the Products / 87
5. Rethinking Risk Management / 93
René M. Stulz
6. An Analysis of Trading Profi ts: How Most Trading Rooms
Really Make Money / 121
Albéric Braas and Charles N. Bralver
7. Theory of Risk Capital in Financial Firms / 131
Robert C. Merton and André F. Perold
8. Value At Risk: Uses and Abuses / 162
Christopher L. Culp, Merton H. Miller, and Andrea M. P. Neves