Comparison of Block Maxima and Peaks Over Threshold Value-at-Risk models for market risk in various economic conditions

Szubzda Filip and Marcin Chlebus ()

Central European Economic Journal, 2019, vol. 6, issue 53, 70-85

Abstract: The aim of the presented study was to assess the quality of VaR forecasts in various states of the economic situation. Two approaches based on the extreme value theory were compared: Block Maxima and the Peaks Over Threshold. Forecasts were made on the daily closing prices of 10 major indices in European countries, divided into two groups: emerging countries (Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland, Slovakia and Hungary) and developed countries (England, France and Germany). Three states of economic situation were analysed: the pre-crisis (2007), the crisis (2008) and the post-crisis (2009) period as out-of-sample. The main conclusion obtained is the too slow process of adapting static EVT-based forecasts to market movements. While in the pre-crisis period the results were satisfactory, in the period of crisis VaR forecasts were too often exceeded.

Keywords: Value-at-Risk; extreme value theory; forecasting; market risk (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C53 C58 G17 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.2478/ceej-2019-0005

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