The Application of Extreme Value Theory to Risk Measurement Based on SSE-180 Index

2004; Operations Research Society of China; Linguagem: Inglês

ISSN

1007-3221

Autores

Guo Hai-yan,

Tópico(s)

Grey System Theory Applications

Resumo

The accurate estimation of Value-at-Risk(VaR) is essential for risk management.In this paper,we use the General Pareto Distribution(GPD)instead of Normal distribution to describe the heavy-tailed characteristic of financial time series.We compare this model with other well-known model such as GARCH(1,1),GARCH(1,1)-t,variance-covariance method and historical simulation.Our studies indicate that the model based on GPD fit better than traditional methods for heavy-tailed distribution on forecasting high quantiles, furthermore, the forecasting results of this model is more stable. This shows that this model is a robust tool to forecast quantiles,which is practical to implement and regulate for VaR measurements.

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