A test for serial independence is proposed which is related to the BDS test but focuses on tail event probabilities rather than probabilities near the center of the distribution. The motivation behind this approach is to obtain a test more suitable for detecting structure in the tails, such as...

Numerous tests designed to detect realized jumps over a fixed time span have been proposed and extensively studied in the financial econometrics literature. These tests differ from “long time span tests” that detect jumps by examining the magnitude of the jump intensity parameter in the data...

1 Introduction -- 2 Motivation -- Part I MEASURES -- 3 Basic Terms and Notation -- 4 Historical Value-at-Risk -- 5 Sensitivities -- 6 Stress Tests -- 7 Analytical Value-at-Risk -- 8 Expected Shortfall -- 9 Model Choices -- 10 A Monte Carlo Modi cation -- 11 Support Measures -- Part II OPERATIONS...