Concept of Value at Risk (VaR)

Seminar paper from the year 2013 in the subject Business economics - Banking, Stock Exchanges, Insurance, Accounting, grade: 2,0, University of Hohenheim, language: English, abstract: How is it possible to manage or measure such a hard to defining term like "risk"? To solve this problem and giving stakeholders a tool to measure their individual risk or to compare it, an empirical risk measurer called "Value at Risk" is used in practice. The main task of this work is to introduce the concept of Value at Risk and giving an overview about the concept itself, its problems and its use in practice.