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Risk management under time varying volatility and Pareto-stable distributions

Risk management under time varying volatility and Pareto-stable distributions
Risk management under time varying volatility and Pareto-stable distributions

Risk measures based on Gaussian return distributions are simple but inaccurate while such measures based on alternative methodologies are known to be more precise but complex. In this context, practitioners seem biased towards simplicity and tend to choose the inaccurate Gaussian measures, leading to unsuspected losses in the event of a negative episode. This article proposes generalized autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity (GARCH) family models with stable Paretian innovations in measuring the value-at-risk, expected shortfall and spectral risk measures that promise a markedly improved performance while maintaining simplicity.

GARCH models, risk measures, stable Paretian distribution, stable processes
1350-4851
Mozumder, Sharif
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Kabir, M. Humayun
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Dempsey, Michael
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Mozumder, Sharif
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Mozumder, Sharif, Kabir, M. Humayun, Dempsey, Michael and Choudhry, Taufiq (2019) Risk management under time varying volatility and Pareto-stable distributions. Applied Economics Letters. (doi:10.1080/13504851.2019.1612025).

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Abstract

Risk measures based on Gaussian return distributions are simple but inaccurate while such measures based on alternative methodologies are known to be more precise but complex. In this context, practitioners seem biased towards simplicity and tend to choose the inaccurate Gaussian measures, leading to unsuspected losses in the event of a negative episode. This article proposes generalized autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity (GARCH) family models with stable Paretian innovations in measuring the value-at-risk, expected shortfall and spectral risk measures that promise a markedly improved performance while maintaining simplicity.

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Accepted/In Press date: 23 January 2019
e-pub ahead of print date: 9 May 2019
Keywords: GARCH models, risk measures, stable Paretian distribution, stable processes

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Local EPrints ID: 431596
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/431596
ISSN: 1350-4851
PURE UUID: a11c5dd1-7ad0-48c1-9f91-d6e67fb56d04
ORCID for Taufiq Choudhry: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-0463-0662

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Date deposited: 10 Jun 2019 16:30
Last modified: 16 Mar 2024 07:54

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Author: Sharif Mozumder
Author: M. Humayun Kabir
Author: Michael Dempsey
Author: Taufiq Choudhry ORCID iD

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