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- ItemAssessing tail-related risk for heteroscedastic return series of Asian emerging equity markets : a thesis presented in partial fulfillment of the requirements for Master of Business Studies at Massey University(Massey University, 2003) Xu, QingHigh degrees of leptokurtosis, heteroscedasticity and asymmetries in return series are the common features of Asian emerging equity markets, especially during the financial crisis. Thus, strengthening risk management with improved risk measures becomes increasingly important. According to the Basle Committee on Banking Supervision, the value at risk (VaR) should be calculated at the 99% confidence level or above with daily data. In the context of Asian equity markets, the use of the estimated conditional variance of market returns as the sole measure of market risk may result in serious underestimation of the true risk caused by tail events. Therefore, this research focuses on the tail-related risk measure of nine Asian index returns within the framework of extreme value theory. It employs the generalized extreme value (GEV) and the generalized Pareto distribution (GPD) approaches combined with AR(l)-GARCH(m, s) filtering of the return data. The VaR performances under different distributions with different volatility filtering are compared, and the estimated conditional and unconditional expected shortfalls based on the GPD are reported. The important findings include the following. (1) The nine heteroscedastic index returns indeed follow heavy-tailed distributions rather than the normal distribution. (2) Both the GPD and GEV distributions of daily returns are asymmetric between local maxima (right tail) and local minima (left tail). (3) The results of the GEV approach are somewhat sensitive to the block length chosen, while the GPD approach, with the thresholds determined much less arbitrarily, can avoid equivocalness with the GEV method. (4) The reported results indicate that the VaR based on the extreme value theory at high quantiles (above 99%) is more accurate than the VaR based on the normal distribution.
- ItemEstimating and evaluating the Archimedean-copula-based models in financial risk management : a dissertation submitted in fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Financial Economics, Massey University, Auckland, New Zealand(Massey University, 2008) Xu, QingCopula is used to model multivariate data, as it accounts for the dependence structure and provides a flexible representation of the multivariate distribution. Recently a large number of Archimedean copulas have been proposed to deal with various dependence aspects in financial risk management, which invokes several new questions in some important yet under-researched areas. These questions, therefore, need further investigation. This dissertation comprises three essays and probes into three untouched questions all involving the Archimedean-copula-based models. The first essay studies whether the Archimedean-copula-based portfolio value-at-risk (PVaR) model outperforms the Gaussian-copula-based PVaR model in out-of-sample forecasting. My empirical findings in this essay show that the Archimedean-copula-based PVaR model, especially the Clayton copula-based model, has better forecasting performance than the Gaussian-copula-based PVaR model in most cases m both the in-sample and out-of-sample periods. In addition, the data snooping problem (i.e., model risk) associated with the copula-based PVaR model is also explored. The second essay examines the question of how to evaluate the non-Gaussian multivariate density forecasts. In this essay, I propose a test procedure, by using the likelihood ratio test based on the Kullback-Leibler information criterion, to evaluate the Archimedean-copula-based multivariate density forecasts, and apply the procedure to foreign exchange markets. The test procedure is not only conducive to fully ranking competing sophisticated models with the non-Gaussian-distributed multivariate densities, but also allows for model misspecification in both marginal and copula functions under the null and the alternative hypothesis. The third essay focuses on this question: Will the PVaR estimation be improved if the Archimedean copula model takes into account conditional asymmetric tail dependence and time-varying investors' heterogeneous beliefs? I use the conditional skewed-t distribution (as the marginal function) to represent time-varying investors' heterogeneous beliefs, and employ three two-parameter Archimedean copulas to investigate dynamic asymmetric tail dependence between two of three Asian developed futures markets. My results provide strong evidence that such conditional copula models can improve the PVaR estimation and so a greater amount of diversification benefits can be reaped at a higher confidence level.