Risk-adjusted measures of value creation in financial institutions

Many financial institutions assess portfolio decisions using RAROC, the ratio of expected return to risk (or ‘economic’) capital. We use asset pricing theory to determine the appropriate hurdle rate, finding that this varies with the skewness of asset returns. We quantify this discrepancy under a ra...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Alistair Milne, Mario Onorato
Format: Default Article
Published: 2012
Subjects:
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/2134/15155
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!