Value at Risk Computation in a Non-Stationary Setting
Book section: This chapter recalls the main tools useful to compute Value at Risk associated with a m-dimensional portfolio. Then, the limitations of the use of these tools is explained, as soon as non-stationarities are observed in time series. Indeed, specific behaviours observed by financial assets, like volatility, jumps, explosions, and pseudo-seasonalities, provoke non-stationarities which affect the distribution function of the portfolio. Thus, a new way for computing VaR is proposed which allows the potential non-invariance of the m-dimensional portfolio distribution function to be avoided.
Author(s)
Dominique Guegan
Publisher(s)
- John Wiley
Scientific editor(s)
- Greg N. Gregoriou, Carsten S. Wehn, Christian Hoppe
Title of the work
- Handbook on Model Risk : Measuring, managing and mitigating model risk, lessons from financial crisis
Date of publication
- 2010
Keywords
- Non-stationarity
- Value-at-Risk
- Dynamic copula -Meta-distribution
- POT method
- POT method
Pages
- 431-454 – chapter 19
URL of the HAL notice
Version
- 1