Portfolio risk estimation in volatile markets requires employing fat-tailed models for financial returns combined with copula functions to capture asymmetries in dependence and an appropriate downside risk measure. In this survey, we discuss how these three essential components can be combined...

Value at Risk (VaR) is the most popular market risk measure as it summarizes in one figure the exposure to different risk factors. It had been around for over a decade when Expected Shortfall (ES) emerged to correct its shortcomings. Both risk measures can be estimated under several models. We...

Sudden and uncertain events often cause cross-contagion of risk among various sectors of the macroeconomy. This paper introduces the stochastic volatility shock that follows a thick-tailed Student's t-distribution into a high-order approximate dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) model...