Operationelle Risiken betreffen nahezu jede Geschäftstätigkeit von Banken. Sie verfügen über ein hohes Schadenspotential und stellen eine große Herausforderung für das Risikomanagement der Banken dar. Verena Bayer untersucht Ansätze zur Quantifizierung operationeller Risiken und der...

In this paper the authors introduce a new hybrid approach based on the Extreme Value Theory (EVT) to joint estimation of Value at Risk (VaR) and Expected Shortfall (ES) for high quantiles of return distributions. The approach is suitable for measuring market risk in the emerging markets. It is...

The experience of past financial market turmoil suggests that in addition to eroding investor wealth, the severe consequences of rare extreme market events can spillover and impair the broader real economies. In this context, this paper is an evaluation of the methodological and empirical...