the Value at Risk (VaR) and the Expected Short-Fall (ES) at 95% and 99%. One of the results on calculating the maximum …

real estate bubble burst, credit crunch and banking panics. As a response, extreme value theory (EVT) provides a set of … ready-made approaches to risk management analysis. However, EVT is usually applied to standardized returns to offer more …

We consider a tractable affine stochastic volatility model that generalizes the seminal Heston (1993) model by … variance, and we examine the impact of the distribution of jumps on the associated implied volatility smile. We provide … sufficient conditions for the asymptotic behavior of the implied volatility of variance for small and large strikes. In …

construct managed portfolios of a risk-free asset and market index. …

apply extreme value theory (EVT) distributions to predict extreme losses of five South African (SA) financial times stock … exchange/Johannesburg Stock Exchange (FTSE/JSE) closing banking indices. The effectiveness of risk measures for measuring risk … capital using Glue-value-at-risk (VaR) is more conservative than using other risk measures under the GEV distribution. …