The empirical evidence from financial markets suggests that the pattern of response of market volatility to shocks is highly dependent on the magnitude of shocks themselves. Markov-Switching GARCH (MS-GARCH) models are a valuable tool for modelling state dependence in the dynamics of the...

In this paper, we focus on three daily exchange rate returns dynamics. Indeed, we have assessed five GARCH-class models under three alternative distributions. Our findings confirm that the skewed Student-t FIAPARCH model performs very well. Then, we have computed short and long Value-at-Risk and...

El concepto de Value at Risk (valor del riesgo) se ha popularizado hace ya casi una década. Este artículo describe el significado de este concepto, y presenta aplicaciones sobre carteras de activos de bonos, acciones, forwards de tasa de interés y de tipos de cambio, y swaps. Se introducen...

In this paper we study the tail behaviour of eight major market indexes stratifying data according to the violation of a high threshold on the previous day. The distributional differences found can be exploited to improve VaR calculations in several settings, giving rise to what we call 'MCVaR'....

This paper compares two types of volatility models for returns, ARCH-type and stochastic volatility (SV) models, both from a theoretical and an empirical point of view. In particular a GARCH(1,1) model, an EGARCH(1,1) model and a log-normal AR(1) stochastic volatility model are considered. The...

The globalisation on financial markets and the development of financial derivatives has increased not only chances but also potential risk within the banking industry. Especially market risk has gained major significance since market price variation of interest rates, stocks or exchange rates...

In this paper, we develop modeling tools to forecast Value-at-Risk and volatility with investment horizons of less than one day. We quantify the market risk based on the study at a 30-min time horizon using modified GARCH models. The evaluation of intraday market risk can be useful to market...

We proposed a method to estimate extreme conditional quantiles by combining quantile GARCH model of Xiao and Koenker (2009) and extreme value theory (EVT) approach. We first estimate the latent volatility process using the information of intermediate quantiles. We then apply EVT to the tail...

The study examines applicability and performance of Value-at-Risk (VaR) models with respect to foreign exchange risk assessment within a managed float regime. Pakistani rupee offers an instructive case as it seems to manage its currency mainly against the US dollar, but to a lesser extent...

This paper studies the dynamics of the Russian stock market in 2000–2007 from the stochastic and chaotic viewpoints. Estimation of Lyapunov exponents for a number of Russian stock prices and indices suggests the absense of low-dimensional chaos. A more precise description of the market...