Defining and measuring business risk in an economic-capital framework

Journal of Risk Finance

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 317-333

  Doff, René ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b Eureko ^*  (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Banks; Capital; Risk analysis; Risk management

Indexed keywords

EID: 85015607908     PISSN: 15265943     EISSN: 09657967     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/15265940810894990     Document Type: Article

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