Kopfbild TUM Mathematik-Fakultät





M4 - Chair of Math. Statistics



Dr. Klaus Böcker 

UniCredit Group, Risk Control

Email:   klaus dot boecker at unicreditgroup dot de






Research interests

  • Financial Risk Management
  • Mathematical Finance
  • Financial Modeling

Publications (selected)


  • Böcker, K. and Klüppelberg, C. (2009)
    Approximationen erster Ordnung für operationelle Risiken unter Abhängigkeiten
    In: Schäfer/Burghof/Johanning/Wagner/Rodt (Hrsg.). Risikomanagement und kapitalmarktorientierte Finanzierung.
    Festschrift für Bernd Rudolph, pp. 403-420. Fritz Knapp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main.
    pdf-file

  • Böcker, K. and Klüppelberg, C. (2009)
    First Order Approximations to Operational Risk - Dependence and Consequences
    To appear in: G.N. Gregoriou (ed.),
    Operational Risk Toward Basel III, Best Practices and Issues in Modeling, Management and Regulation. Wiley, New York
    .
    pdf-file

  • K. Böcker (2008)
    Modelling and Measuring Business Risk
    In: Pillar II in the New Basel Accord: the Challenge of the Internal
    Capital Adequacy Assessment Process, Ed. A. Resti, Risk Books, to appear.
    pdf-file

  • Böcker, K., Klüppelberg, C. (2008)
    Modelling and Measuring Multivariate Operational Risk with Lévy Copulas
    J. Operational Risk 3(2), 3-27.
    pdf-file, ps-file

  • Böcker, K., Klüppelberg, C. (2008)
    Economic Capital Modelling and Basel II Compliance in the Banking Industry
    In: Jäger, W. and Krebs, H.-J. (Eds.)
    Mathematics - Key Technology for the Future. Springer, Berlin.
    pdf-file, ps-file

  • Böcker, K., Sprittulla, J. (2008)
    Operational VAR: meaningful means
    RISK, December 2006, 96-98.
    pdf-file

  • Böcker, K., Klüppelberg, C. (2007)
    Multivariate Operational Risk: Dependence Modelling with Lévy Copulas
    2007 ERM Symposium Online Monograph, Society of Actuaries, and Joint Risk Management section newsletter of the Society of Actuaries, Casualty of Actuaries, and Canandian Insitute of Actuaries Society of Actuaries.
    pdf-file, ps-file

  • Böcker, K., Hillebrand, M. (2007)
    Interaction of Market and Credit Risk: An Analysis of Inter-Risk Correlation and Risk Aggregation
    (PRMIA "2008 New Frontiers in Risk Management Award")
    Submitted for publication.
    pdf-file

  • Böcker, K., Klüppelberg, C. (2006)
    Multivariate Models for Operational Risk.
    (PRMIA "2007 New Frontiers in Risk Management Award")
    Quantitative Finance. To appear.
    pdf-file, ps-file

  • Böcker, K., Klüppelberg, C. (2005)
    Operational VaR: a closed-form approximation
    RISK, December 2005, 90-93.
    ps-file, pdf-file

    Conference Talks 


    Epistemic Risk and Measurement Uncertainty.
    Jahrestagung Effizientes Kreditportfoliomanagement, Marcus Evans, Frankfurt, September 2009

    Measurement Uncertainty, Expert Elicitation and Bayesian Analysis.
    Scheduled talk at Risk Capital Conference, ICBI, Brussels, July 2009

    Quo Vadis, Economic Capital? Epistemic Risk & Expert Judgements.
    Scheduled talk at Risk Minds Conference, ICBI, Geneva, December 2008

    EC Aggregation: Some issues on model risk.
    Scheduled talk at Risk Capital Conference, ICBI, Paris, July 2008

    Risk Aggregation: An analysis of inter-risk correlation between market and credit risk.
    awarded with the PRMIA "2008 New Frontiers in Risk Management Award",
    Enterprise Risk Management Symposium, Chicago, IL, USA, April 2008

    Dependence Modelling of Operational VAR using Lévy Copulas.
    Invited talk at the Risk Management Day, University of Aarhus, February 2008

    Aggregation verschiedener Risikoarten und Ermittlung der Interkorrelationsmatrix.
    Integrierte Banksteuerung. Euroforum-Conference, Düsseldorf, Germany,
    January 2008

    Interaction of Market and Credit Risk: Inter-Risk Correlation and Risk Aggregation.
    Conference on the Interaction of Market and Credit Risk, Research Task Force of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision and the Journal of Banking & Finance, hosted by the Deutsche Bundesbank, Berlin, December, 2007

    Risk Integration In The Spotlight: Assessing The Diversification And Correlation Between A Credit Portfolio And Other Risk Types.
    Scheduled talk at Risk Minds Conference, ICBI, Geneva, December 2007

    ICAAP: Managing capital adequacy processes under Basel II.
    Scheduled talk at GARP's 3
    rd Economic Capital Road Show,
    London and Amsterdam, October and November 2007

    Multivariate Models For Operational Risk: Closed-Form Approximations for OpVAR. PRMIA Munich Chapter Meeting, PRMIA and KPMG, Munich, July 2007

    Interaction of Market and Credit Risk: Inter-Risk Correlation and Risk Aggregation.
    Scheduled talk at Risk Capital Conference, ICBI, Paris, July 2007

    Multivariate Models for Operational Risk.
    awarded with the PRMIA "2007 New Frontiers in Risk Management Award",
    Enterprise Risk Management Symposium, Chicago, IL, USA, March 2007

    Building Blocks for an Economic Capital Model.
    Training Course on Economic Capital Modelling. RISK Training,
    London, December 2006

    Multivariate Modelling of Operational VAR with Levy Copulas
    2nd Annual Operational Risk in CEE. MarcusEvans,
    Prague, December 2006

    Closed-Form Approximations for Operational VaR.
    Operations Research Conference, University of Karlsruhe, September 2006

    Risikoaggregation und Risikotragfähigkeit als wesentliche Bestandteile des ICAAP.
    Anforderungen der Baseler Regelungen durch die Säulen II und III,
    Euroforum- Conference, Wiesbaden, Germany, August 2006

    Investigating Operational VAR by Closed Form Approximations.
    Risk Capital Conference, ICBI, Paris, July 2006

    Economic Capital – News and Views.
    BMBF workshop on credit risk management, Technical University of Munich,
    March 2006



    Appreciations


    • "PRMIA Best Paper Award for a paper charting New Frontiers in Risk Management":

    Böcker, K. and Hillebrand, M. Interaction of Market and Credit Risk: An Analysis of Inter-Risk Correlation and Risk Aggregation.
    Paper presented at: ERM Symposium; March 28−March 30, 2008;
    Chicago, IL.

    • "PRMIA Best Paper Award for a paper charting New Frontiers in Risk Management":

    Böcker, K. and Klüppelberg, C. Multivariate Models for Operational Risk.
    Paper presented at: 2007 ERM Symposium; April 14−April 16; Chicago, IL.

    • Nomination for the "Operational Risk & Compliance Achievements Awards 2006, Category: Academic Paper": Böcker, K. and Klüppelberg, C. (2005).
      Operational VAR: a closed-form approximation.
      April 6, 2006; London.



    Short CV


    Here.