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Research paper thumbnail of An Improved CAViaR Model for Oil Price Risk

Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2007

As a benchmark for measuring market risk, Value-at-Risk (VaR) reduces the risk associated with an... more As a benchmark for measuring market risk, Value-at-Risk (VaR) reduces the risk associated with any kind of asset to just a number (amount in terms of a currency), which can be well understood by regulators, board members, and other interested parties. This paper employs a new kind of VaR approach due to Engle and Manganelli [4] to forecasting oil price risk. In doing so, we provide two original contributions: introducing a new exponentially weighted moving average CAViaR model and developing a least squares regression model for multi-period VaR prediction.

Research paper thumbnail of Index-Exciting CAViaR: A New Empirical Time-Varying Risk Model

Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics & Econometrics, 2000

Instead of assuming the distribution of return series, propose a new Value-at-Risk (VaR) modeling... more Instead of assuming the distribution of return series, propose a new Value-at-Risk (VaR) modeling approach, Conditional Autoregressive Value-at-Risk (CAViaR), to directly compute the quantile of an individual asset's returns which performs better in many cases than those that invert a return distribution. In this paper we explore more flexible CAViaR models that allow VaR prediction to depend upon a richer information set involving returns on an index. Specifically, we formulate a time-varying CAViaR model whose parameters vary according to the evolution of the index. The empirical evidence reported in this paper suggests that our timevarying CAViaR models can do a better job for VaR prediction when there are spillover effects from one market or market segment to other markets or market segments. * We thank the editor (Bruce Mizrach) and the three anonymous referees for constructive suggestions that guided us in improving the paper. We are also grateful to Simone Manganelli for providing his CAViaR codes.

Research paper thumbnail of Portfolio selection of a closed-end mutual fund

Mathematical Methods of Operations Research, 2012

Research paper thumbnail of CAViaR-based forecast for oil price risk

Research paper thumbnail of An Improved CAViaR Model for Oil Price Risk

Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2007

As a benchmark for measuring market risk, Value-at-Risk (VaR) reduces the risk associated with an... more As a benchmark for measuring market risk, Value-at-Risk (VaR) reduces the risk associated with any kind of asset to just a number (amount in terms of a currency), which can be well understood by regulators, board members, and other interested parties. This paper employs a new kind of VaR approach due to Engle and Manganelli [4] to forecasting oil price risk. In doing so, we provide two original contributions: introducing a new exponentially weighted moving average CAViaR model and developing a least squares regression model for multi-period VaR prediction.

Research paper thumbnail of Index-Exciting CAViaR: A New Empirical Time-Varying Risk Model

Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics & Econometrics, 2000

Instead of assuming the distribution of return series, propose a new Value-at-Risk (VaR) modeling... more Instead of assuming the distribution of return series, propose a new Value-at-Risk (VaR) modeling approach, Conditional Autoregressive Value-at-Risk (CAViaR), to directly compute the quantile of an individual asset's returns which performs better in many cases than those that invert a return distribution. In this paper we explore more flexible CAViaR models that allow VaR prediction to depend upon a richer information set involving returns on an index. Specifically, we formulate a time-varying CAViaR model whose parameters vary according to the evolution of the index. The empirical evidence reported in this paper suggests that our timevarying CAViaR models can do a better job for VaR prediction when there are spillover effects from one market or market segment to other markets or market segments. * We thank the editor (Bruce Mizrach) and the three anonymous referees for constructive suggestions that guided us in improving the paper. We are also grateful to Simone Manganelli for providing his CAViaR codes.

Research paper thumbnail of Portfolio selection of a closed-end mutual fund

Mathematical Methods of Operations Research, 2012

Research paper thumbnail of CAViaR-based forecast for oil price risk

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