systematic risk is highly nonlinear in extreme scenarios-especially during the subprime crisis. We find that countercyclical …-traditional risk premia by deliberately increasing their systematic risk while the later focus more on minimizing risk. Our results … suggest that the hedge fund strategies' betas respond more to illiquidity uncertainty than to illiquidity risk during crises …

Despite well-known shortcomings as a risk measure, Value-at-Risk (VaR) is still the industry and regulatory standard … for the calculation of risk capital in banking and insurance. This paper is concerned with the numerical estimation of the … VaR for a portfolio position as a function of different dependence scenarios on the factors of the portfolio. Besides …