Patra, Saswat; Bhattacharyya, Malay - In: Risks : open access journal 8 (2020) 3/76, pp. 1-17
the risk better than Value-at-Risk especially. While VaR is a measure of end-of-horizon risk, MaxVaR captures the interim … horizon. For a 30-day maturity option, we find that MaxVaR can be 40% higher than VaR at a 5% significance level. It … highlights the importance of MaxVaR as a risk measure and shows that the risk is vastly underestimated when VaR is used as the …