What we know, don't know, and can't know about bank risk a view from the trenches

The Known, the Unknown, and the Unknowable in Financial Risk Management: Measurement and Theory Advancing Practice

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 103-144

  Kuritzkes, Andrew ^a   Schuermann, Til ^b,c  

^a Mercer Oliver Wyman ^*  (United Kingdom)

^b FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c Howard Hughes Medical Institute   (United States)

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