Trojani, Fabio Ebnöther, Silvan 2015-09-10 The interaction of capital and risk is of primary interest in the corporate governance of banks as it links operational profitability and strategic risk management. Senior executives understand that their organization's monitoring system strongly affects the behaviour of managers and employees. Typical instruments used by senior executives to focus on strategy are balanced scorecards with objectives for performance and risk management, including an according payroll process. A top-down capital-at-risk concept gives the executive board the desired control of the operative behaviour of all risk takers. It guarantees uniform compensations for business risks taken in any division or business area. The standard theory of cost-of-capital assumes standardized assets. Return distributions are equally normalized to a one-year risk horizon. It must be noted that risk measurement and management for any individual risk factor has a bottom-up design. The typical risk horizon for trading positions is 10 days, 1 month for treasury positions, 1 year for operational risks and even longer for credit risks. My contribution to the discussion is as follows: in the classical theory, one determines capital requirements and risk measurement using a top-down approach, without specifying market and regulation standards. In my thesis I show how to close the gap between bottom-up risk modelling and top-down capital alignment. I dedicate a separate paper to each risk factor and its application in risk capital management. application/pdf https://n2t.net/ark:/12658/srd1318417 https://susi.usi.ch/global/documents/318417 https://susi.usi.ch/documents/318417/files/2015ECO007.pdf eng info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/urn/urn:nbn:ch:rero-006-114587 info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/ark/12658/srd1318417 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess License undefined Economic capital Risk capital Value-at-risk VaR Market risk Capital charge Cost of capital Risk budget Exposure management Corporate governance Risk management Operational risk Extreme value theory Credit risk management Portfolio management Risk measurement Coherence Expected shortfall Factor model Optimal limit policy Partial information Adverse selection info:eu-repo/classification/udc/33 Aligning capital with risk http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_db06