Calculating VaR in EU Candidate States

Saša Žiković

South East European Journal of Economics and Business, 2008, vol. 3, issue 1, 23-33

Abstract: This paper examines whether VaR models that are created and suited for developed and liquid markets apply to the volatile and shallow financial markets of EU candidate states. To this end, several VaR models are tested on five official stock indexes from EU candidate states over a period of 500 trading days. The tested VaR models are: a historical simulation with rolling windows of 50, 100, 250 and 500 days, a parametric variance-covariance approach, a BRW historical simulation, a RiskMetrics system and a variance-covariance approach using GARCH forecasts. Based on the backtesting results it can be concluded that VaR models that are commonly used in developed financial market are not well-suited to measuring market risk in EU candidate states. Using some of the most widespread VaR models in these circumstances may result in serious problems for both banks and regulators.

Keywords: EU; VaR; VCV; EWMA; Historical simulation; BRW; ARCH; GARCH; EU; VaR; VCV; EWMA; Historical simulation; BRW; ARCH; GARCH (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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DOI: 10.2478/v10033-008-0003-y

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