applications used in many areas like risk evaluation, option pricing or portfolio construction. The statistical tools used to …-frequency volatility estimators, market risk evaluation, covariance estimation and multivariate extensions of the processes. The book …

We investigate the importance of aggregate and consumer-specific or idiosyncratic labour income risk for aggregate … consumption changes in the US over the period 1952-2001. Theoretically, the effect of labour income risk on consumption changes is … decomposed into an aggregate and into an idiosyncratic part. Empirically, aggregate risk is modelled through a GARCH process on …

the failure of financial modeling. More specifically, current risk models have failed to properly assess the risks … over prevailing models for evaluating stock market risk exposure during distressed market periods. -- ARMA-GARCH model ; α …-stable distribution ; tempered stable distribution ; value-at-risk (VaR) ; average value-at-risk (AVaR) …