Bayesian Risk Forecasting for Long Horizons

Agnieszka Borowska, Lennart Hoogerheide and Siem Jan Koopman
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Agnieszka Borowska: VU Amsterdam
Lennart Hoogerheide: VU Amsterdam

No 19-018/III, Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers from Tinbergen Institute

Abstract: We present an accurate and efficient method for Bayesian forecasting of two financial risk measures, Value-at-Risk and Expected Shortfall, for a given volatility model. We obtain precise forecasts of the tail of the distribution of returns not only for the 10-days-ahead horizon required by the Basel Committee but even for long horizons, like one-month or one-year-ahead. The latter has recently attracted considerable attention due to the different properties of short term risk and long run risk. The key insight behind our importance sampling based approach is the sequential construction of marginal and conditional importance densities for consecutive periods. We report substantial accuracy gains for all the considered horizons in empirical studies on two datasets of daily financial returns, including a highly volatile period of the recent financial crisis. To illustrate the flexibility of the proposed construction method, we present how it can be adjusted to the frequentist case, for which we provide counterparts of both Bayesian applications.

Keywords: Bayesian inference; forecasting; importance sampling; numerical accuracy; long run risk; Value-at-Risk; Expected Shortfall (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019-02-22
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