scholarly journals Risk Analysis of Gold Prices in Pakistan Using Extreme Value Theory

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Ghulam Raza Khan ◽  
Alanazi Talal Abdulrahman ◽  
Osama Alamri ◽  
Zahid Iqbal ◽  
Maqsood Ahmad
Keyword(s):  
Extreme Value Theory ◽  
Value At Risk ◽  
Risk Measures ◽  
Value Theory ◽  
Extreme Value ◽  
Return Level ◽  
Extreme Stress ◽  
Daily Data ◽  
Peak Over Threshold ◽  
The Impact

Extreme value theory (EVT) is useful for modeling the impact of crashes or situations of extreme stress on investor portfolios. EVT is mostly utilized in financial modeling, risk management, insurance, and hydrology. The price of gold fluctuates considerably over time, and this introduces a risk on its own. The goal of this study is to analyze the risk of gold investment by applying the EVT to historical daily data for extreme daily losses and gains in the price of gold. We used daily gold prices in the Pakistan Bullion Market from August 1, 2011 to July 30, 2021. This paper covers two methods such as Block Maxima (BM) and Peak Over Threshold (POT) modeling. The risk measures which are adopted in this paper are Value at Risk (VaR) and Expected Shortfall (ES). The point and interval estimates of VaR and ES are obtained by fitting the Generalized Pareto (GPA) distribution. Moreover, in this paper, return-level forecasting is also included for the next 5 and 10 years by analyzing the Generalized Extreme Value (GEV) distribution.

scholarly journals Extreme Risk, Value-At-Risk And Expected Shortfall In The Gold Market

2014 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 107
Author(s):  
Knowledge Chinhamu ◽  
Chun-Kai Huang ◽  
Chun-Sung Huang ◽  
Delson Chikobvu
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Value At Risk ◽  
Risk Measures ◽  
Effective Means ◽  
Value Theory ◽  
Expected Shortfall ◽  
Extreme Stress ◽  
Extreme Risk ◽  
Gold Market ◽  
The Impact

Extreme value theory (EVT) has been widely applied in fields such as hydrology and insurance. It is a tool used to reflect on probabilities associated with extreme, and thus rare, events. EVT is useful in modeling the impact of crashes or situations of extreme stress on investor portfolios. It describes the behavior of maxima or minima in a time series, i.e., tails of a distribution. In this paper, we propose the use of generalised Pareto distribution (GPD) to model extreme returns in the gold market. This method provides effective means of estimating tail risk measures such as Value-at-Risk (VaR) and Expected Shortfall (ES). This is confirmed by various backtesting procedures. In particular, we utilize the Kupiec unconditional coverage test and the Christoffersen conditional coverage test for VaR backtesting, while the Bootstrap test is used for ES backtesting. The results indicate that GPD is superior to the traditional Gaussian and Students t models for VaR and ES estimations.

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