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Volatility forecasting for risk management

Volatility forecasting for risk management
Volatility forecasting for risk management
Recent research has suggested that forecast evaluation on the basis of standard statistical loss functions could prefer models which are sub-optimal when used in a practical setting. This paper explores a number of statistical models for predicting the daily volatility of several key UK financial time series. The out-of-sample forecasting performance of various linear and GARCH-type models of volatility are compared with forecasts derived from a multivariate approach. The forecasts are evaluated using traditional metrics, such as mean squared error, and also by how adequately they perform in a modern risk management setting. We find that the relative accuracies of the various methods are highly sensitive to the measure used to evaluate them. Such results have implications for any econometric time series forecasts which are subsequently employed in financial decision making.
internal risk management models, asset return volatility, value at risk models, forecasting, univariate and multivariate GARCH models
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Brooks, Chris
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Persand, Gita
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Brooks, Chris
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Persand, Gita
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Brooks, Chris and Persand, Gita (2003) Volatility forecasting for risk management. Journal of Forecasting, 22 (1), 1-22. (doi:10.1002/for.841).

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Recent research has suggested that forecast evaluation on the basis of standard statistical loss functions could prefer models which are sub-optimal when used in a practical setting. This paper explores a number of statistical models for predicting the daily volatility of several key UK financial time series. The out-of-sample forecasting performance of various linear and GARCH-type models of volatility are compared with forecasts derived from a multivariate approach. The forecasts are evaluated using traditional metrics, such as mean squared error, and also by how adequately they perform in a modern risk management setting. We find that the relative accuracies of the various methods are highly sensitive to the measure used to evaluate them. Such results have implications for any econometric time series forecasts which are subsequently employed in financial decision making.

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Published date: 2003
Keywords: internal risk management models, asset return volatility, value at risk models, forecasting, univariate and multivariate GARCH models

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Local EPrints ID: 35865
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/35865
ISSN: 0277-6693
PURE UUID: ee4c842c-3526-46a0-a4ea-91d55fbe5fbc

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Date deposited: 23 May 2006
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 07:54

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Author: Chris Brooks
Author: Gita Persand

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