Risk Measure Estimates in Quiet and Turbulent Times:An Empirical Study

Chotard Rosnan, Michel Dacorogna and Kratz Marie ()
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Chotard Rosnan: CREAR - Center of Research in Econo-finance and Actuarial sciences on Risk / Centre de Recherche Econo-financière et Actuarielle sur le Risque
Kratz Marie: Essec Business School

No WP1618, ESSEC Working Papers from ESSEC Research Center, ESSEC Business School

Abstract: In this study we empirically explore the capacity of historical VaR to correctly predict the future risk of a financial institution. We observe that rolling samples are better able to capture the dynamics of future risks. We thus introduce another risk measure, the Sample Quantile Process, which is a generalization of the VaR calculated on a rolling sample, and study its behavior as a predictor by varying its parameters. Moreover, we study the behavior of the future risk as a function of past volatility. We show that if the past volatility is low, the historical computation of the risk measure underestimates the future risk, while in period of high volatility, the risk measure overestimates the risk, confirming that the current way financial institutions measure their risk is highly procyclical.

Keywords: backtest; risk measure; sample quantile process; stochastic model; VaR; volatility (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C13 C22 C52 C53 G01 G33 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 24 pages
Date: 2016-11
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