Gorji, Mahsa; Sajjad, Rasoul - In: Contemporary Economics 11 (2017) 1, pp. 91-106
Returns in financial assets display consistent excess kurtosis and skewness, implying the presence of large fluctuations not forecasted by Gaussian models. This paper applies a resampling method based on the bootstrap and a bias-correction step to improve Value-at-Risk (VaR) forecasting ability...