Expected shortfall (ES) is a popular risk measure and plays an important role in risk and portfolio management. Recently, change-point detection of risk measures has been attracting much attention in finance. Based on the self-normalized CUSUM statistic in Fan, Glynn and Pelger (2018) and the...

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This paper examines the behaviour of the ‘VXO', previously called the ‘VIX', and ‘VXN' measures of the volatility implied by stock index options. From the mid-1990s to the end of 2002, the volatility measures seem to reflect both sentiment associated with market declines (‘fear') and...

This paper aims at contributing to the literature in three ways: First, we re-evaluate the performance of popular Value-at-Risk (VaR) estimation methods on freight rates amid the adverse economic consequences of the recent financial and sovereign debt crisis. Secondly we provide a detailed and...

Assessing macroeconomic demand conditions is critical for monetary policy to gaugeimminent inflationary pressures. Generally, measures of output gap, calculated byapplying statistical filters on GDP data, are used for this purpose. GDP data, however,are released only at quarterly frequency with...