Value at risk (VaR) and expected shortfall (ES) are two of the most widely used risk measures in economics and finance. In this paper, we use a semiparametric method, together with realized variance measures, to jointly estimate structural models for the two risk measures. The semiparametric...

We aim to construct portfolios by employing different risk models and compare their performance in order to understand their appropriateness for effective portfolio management for investors. Mean variance (MV), semi variance (SV), mean absolute deviation (MaD) and conditional value at risk...

In this chapter, some of the many prominent and recent papers in the systemic risk literature are reviewed. In all these papers, financial econometrics methods are used whether to extract the connections between institutions or assets by analyzing the related data or to construct a measure of...