Rossignolo, Adrian F.; Fethi, Meryem Duygun; Shaban, Mohamed - In: International Journal of Banking, Accounting and Finance 4 (2012) 2, pp. 94-134
value theory (EVT) provides a method to estimate VaR at high quantiles of the distribution focusing on unusual circumstances …. This paper employs EVT to calculate VaR for ten stock market indices belonging to developed and emerging markets in two … different ways: unconditional EVT on raw returns and conditional EVT through quasi-maximum likelihood. The performance of EVT …