Bekiros, Stelios; Georgoutsos, Dimitris - In: Applied Financial Economics 18 (2007) 3, pp. 239-254
In this article we apply the Extreme Value Theory (EVT) in order to estimate the Value-at-Risk (VaR) and the correlation of extreme returns for two inherently unstable markets; the foreign exchange and the stock market. We also derive the corresponding VaR estimates from more 'traditional'...