scholarly journals The role of distribution and volatility specification in value at risk estimation: Evidence from the Johannesburg Stock Exchange

2012 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 515-526
Author(s):  
John M. Mwamba ◽  
Kruger Pretorius
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Value At Risk ◽  
Stock Exchange ◽  
Risk Estimation ◽  
Value Theory ◽  
Johannesburg Stock Exchange ◽  
Volatility Models ◽  
Student’S T ◽  
T Distribution

Given the volatile nature of global financial markets, managing as well as predicting financial risk plays an increasingly important role in banking and finance. The Value at Risk (VaR) measure has emerged as the most prominent measure of downside market risk. It is measured as the alpha quantile of the profit and loss distribution. Recently a number of distributions have been proposed to model VaR: these include the extreme value theory distributions (EVT), Generalized Error Distribution (GED), Student’s t, and normal distribution. Furthermore, asymmetric as well as symmetric volatility models are combined with these distributions for out-sample VaR forecasts. This paper assesses the role of the distribution assumption and volatility specification in the accuracy of VaR estimates using daily closing prices of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange All Share Index (JSE ALSI). It is found that Student’s t distribution combined with asymmetric volatility models produces VaR estimates in out-sample periods that outperform those from models stemming from normal, EVT/symmetric volatility specification.

scholarly journals Dynamic value at risk estimation for BELEX15

2011 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Emilija Nikolić-Đorić ◽  
Dragan Đorić
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Stock Returns ◽  
Long Memory ◽  
Value At Risk ◽  
Stock Exchange ◽  
Risk Estimation ◽  
Value Theory ◽  
Garch Models ◽  
Measurement Models ◽  
Standardized Residuals

This paper uses RiskMetrics, GARCH and IGARCH models to calculate daily VaR for Belgrade Stock Exchange index BELEX15 returns based on the normal and Student t innovation distribution. In the case of GARCH and IGARCH models VaR values are obtained applying Extreme Value Theory on the standardized residuals. The Kupiec's LR statistics was used to test the accuracy of risk measurement models. The main conclusions are: (1) when modelling value-at-risk it is very important to have a good model for volatility of stock returns; (2) both stationary and integrated GARCH models outperform RiskMetrics in estimating VaR; (3) although long memory volatility is present in the BELEX15 index, IGARCH models cannot outperform GARCH type models in VaR evaluations for this index.

scholarly journals Value at Risk estimation using GAS models with heavy tailed distributions for cryptocurrencies

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 40-54
Author(s):  
Stephanie Danielle Subramoney ◽  
Knowledge Chinhamu ◽  
Retius Chifurira
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Value At Risk ◽  
Risk Estimation ◽  
Ratio Test ◽  
Student’S T Distribution ◽  
Heavy Tailed Distributions ◽  
Heavy Tailed ◽  
Student’S T ◽  
Student's T Distribution ◽  
T Distribution

  Risk management and prediction of market losses of cryptocurrencies are of notable value to risk managers, portfolio managers, financial market researchers and academics. One of the most common measures of an asset’s risk is Value-at-Risk (VaR). This paper evaluates and compares the performance of generalized autoregressive score (GAS) combined with heavy-tailed distributions, in estimating the VaR of two well-known cryptocurrencies’ returns, namely Bitcoin returns and Ethereum returns. In this paper, we proposed a VaR model for Bitcoin and Ethereum returns, namely the GAS model combined with the generalized lambda distribution (GLD), referred to as the GAS-GLD model. The relative performance of the GAS-GLD models was compared to the models proposed by Troster et al. (2018), in other words, GAS models combined with asymmetric Laplace distribution (ALD), the asymmetric Student’s t-distribution (AST) and the skew Student’s t-distribution (SSTD). The Kupiec likelihood ratio test was used to assess the adequacy of the proposed models. The principal findings suggest that the GAS models with heavy-tailed innovation distributions are, in fact, appropriate for modelling cryptocurrency returns, with the GAS-GLD being the most adequate for the Bitcoin returns at various VaR levels, and both GAS-SSTD, GAS-ALD and GAS-GLD models being the most appropriate for the Ethereum returns at the VaR levels used in this study.    

scholarly journals Generalized Hyperbolic Distributions And Value-At-Risk Estimation For The South African Mining Index

2014 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 319 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chun-Kai Huang ◽  
Knowledge Chinhamu ◽  
Chun-Sung Huang ◽  
Jahvaid Hammujuddy
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
South African ◽  
Value At Risk ◽  
Stock Exchange ◽  
Risk Estimation ◽  
Mining Industry ◽  
Information Criterion ◽  
The South ◽  
Volatility Clustering ◽  
T Distribution

South Africa is a cornucopia of mineral riches and the performance of its mining industry has significant impacts on the economy. Hence, an accurate distributional assumption of the underlying mining index returns is imperative for the forecasting and understanding of the financial market. In this paper, we propose three subclasses of the generalized hyperbolic distributions as appropriate models for the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) Mining Index returns. These models are shown to outperform the traditional assumption of normality and accommodate for a number of stylized features, such as excess kurtosis and volatility clustering, embedded within the financial data. The models are compared using the Akaike Information Criterion (AIC), the Bayesian Information Criterion (BIC) and log-likelihoods. In addition, Value-at-Risk (VaR) estimation and backtesting were also performed to test the extreme tails. The various criteria utilized suggest the generalized hyperbolic (GH) skew Students t-distribution as the most robust model for the South African Mining Index returns.

scholarly journals Using HMM Approach for Assessing Quality of Value at Risk Estimation: Evidence from PSE Listed Company

2017 ◽  
Vol 65 (5) ◽  
pp. 1687-1694
Author(s):  
Tomáš Konderla ◽  
Václav Klepáč
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Value At Risk ◽  
Stock Exchange ◽  
Risk Estimation ◽  
Listed Company ◽  
Mixture Distribution ◽  
Normal Mixture ◽  
Development Characteristic ◽  
The Common

The article points out the possibilities of using Hidden Markov model (abbrev. HMM) for estimation of Value at Risk metrics (abbrev. VaR) in sample. For the illustration we use data of the company listed on Prague Stock Exchange in range from January 2011 to June 2016. HMM approach allows us to classify time series into different states based on their development characteristic. Due to a deeper shortage of existing domestic results or comparison studies with advanced volatility governed VaR forecasts we tested HMM with univariate ARMA‑GARCH model based VaR estimates. The common testing via Kupiec and Christoffersen procedures offer generalization that HMM model performs better that volatility based VaR estimation technique in terms of accuracy, even with the simpler HMM with normal‑mixture distribution against previously used GARCH with many types of non‑normal innovations.

scholarly journals MULTIVARIATE HEAVY-TAILED MODELS FOR VALUE-AT-RISK ESTIMATION

2012 ◽  
Vol 15 (04) ◽  
pp. 1250029 ◽  
Author(s):  
CARLO MARINELLI ◽  
STEFANO D'ADDONA ◽  
SVETLOZAR T. RACHEV
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Value At Risk ◽  
Stock Price ◽  
Risk Estimation ◽  
Price Data ◽  
Heavy Tailed Distributions ◽  
Derivative Instruments ◽  
Heavy Tailed ◽  
Student’S T

For purposes of Value-at-Risk estimation, we consider several multivariate families of heavy-tailed distributions, which can be seen as multidimensional versions of Paretian stable and Student's t distributions allowing different marginals to have different indices of tail thickness. After a discussion of relevant estimation and simulation issues, we conduct a backtesting study on a set of portfolios containing derivative instruments, using historical US stock price data.

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