Risk models–at–risk

Christophe M. Boucher, Jon Danielsson, Patrick S. Kouontchou and Bertrand Maillet

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Abstract: The experience from the global financial crisis has raised serious concerns about the accuracy of standard risk measures as tools for the quantification of extreme downward risk. A key reason for this is that risk measures are subject to model risk due, e.g., to specification and estimation uncertainty. While the authorities would like financial institutions to assess model risk, there is no accepted approach for such computations. We propose a remedy for this by a general framework for the computation of risk measures robust to model risk by empirically adjusting imperfect risk forecasts by outcomes from backtesting, considering the desirable quality of VaR models such as the frequency, independence and magnitude of violations. We also provide a fair comparison between the main risk models using the same metric that corresponds to model risk required corrections.

Keywords: model risk; value–at–risk; backtesting (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C50 G11 G32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 58 pages
Date: 2014-01-17
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