WILL SWITCHING FROM THE VAR TO THE EXPECTED SHORTFALL PROVIDE THE EFFICIENCY IN THE CAPITAL ADEQUACY? EVIDENCE FROM THE FX POSITIONS

Muzaffer Akat () and Cahit Memis ()
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Muzaffer Akat: Ozyegin University, Turkey
Cahit Memis: Risk Active, Turkey

Eurasian Journal of Business and Management, 2018, vol. 6, issue 2, 1-13

Abstract: The banks have to measure the market risk daily for the calculation of their capital adequacy. According to the Fundamental Review of Trading Book (FRTB) market risk revision, which was released in 2016 by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS), the expected shortfall (ES) will replace the value-at-risk (VaR) approach in order to capture the tail risks. In this paper, various risk management methodologies have been compared based on their performances using both the VaR and the ES. The data are based on three different currencies (USD/TRY, EUR/TRY, and EUR/USD) for the period from Jan 2nd, 2007 to Jan 4th, 2017. The methodologies have been applied to several portfolios of assets, ranging from a linear one (pure FX Position) to highly non-linear one (complex derivative securities on FX). The binomial backtest method is used for comparing backtesting performance and the empirical results indicate that the ES method, in lieu of the VaR methods, ensures the significant reduction in the capital adequacy for the semi-parametric models. In addition, the ES yields a considerable capital adequacy reduction compared to the VaR in linear portfolios. The reduction in loses strengths as the portfolios get more non-linear. These findings mainly highlight the importance of the convexity and the subadditivity features of the non-linear portfolios.

Keywords: Expected Shortfall; Value at Risk; Backtesting Methods; Risk Management; Capital Adequacy; FX Portfolios (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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