In questo articolo si sviluppa un nuovo approccio per il calcolo del Value-at-Risk che utilizza il Filtro di Kalman per stimare il beta dei titoli di un portafoglio. Tale tecnica viene applicata al portafoglio azionario di una società assicurativa e confrontata con i metodi tradizionali basati...

The explosion of algorithmic trading has been one of the most prominent recent trends in the financial industry. Algorithmic trading consists of automated trading strategies that attempt to minimize transaction costs by optimally placing orders. The key ingredient of many of these strategies are...

The transmission mechanisms of volatility between markets can be characterized within a new Markov Switching bivariate model where the state of one variable feeds into the transition probability of the state of the other. A number of model restrictions and hypotheses can be tested to stress the...

Multiplicative Error Models (MEM) can be used to trace the dynamics of non–negative valued processes. Interactions between several such processes are accommodated by the vector MEM and estimated by maximum likelihood (Gamma marginals with copula functions) or by Generalized Method of Moments....