theory based models provide a reasonable degree of safety while widespread VaR models do not provide adequate risk coverage …The purpose of this paper is to investigate the performance of VaR models at measuring risk for WTI oil one …-month futures returns. Risk models, ranging from industry standards such as RiskMetrics and historical simulation to conditional …

they should not? - How do investors deal with such crises in terms of their risk measurement and management and, as a …This book is a guide to asset and risk management from a practical point of view. It is centered around two questions … triggered by the global events on the stock markets since the middle of the last decade: - Why do crashes happen when in theory …

This paper investigates the predictability of variance and value at-risk (VaR) measures in international stock markets … determine the persistency of these risk measures. We find that for all G7 countries considered in the paper persistency in …

related to less liquid financial assets from emerging markets. Since investment decisions are based on risk preferences and … investors are commonly risk averse, they tend to limit their risk exposure while defining their investment strategy. Various … risk measures can be used to estimate the level of risk. Value at Risk (VaR) is a widely accepted summary measure of market …