Risk Management with Thinly Traded Securities: Methodology and Implementation

Gonzalo Cortazar, Diether Beuermann and Alejandro Bernales

No 4647, IDB Publications (Working Papers) from Inter-American Development Bank

Abstract: Thinly traded securities exist in both emerging and well developed markets. However, plausible estimations of market risk measures for portfolios with infrequently traded securities have not been explored in the literature. We propose a methodology to calculate market risk measures based on the Kalman filter which can be used on incomplete datasets. We implement our approach in a fixed- income portfolio within a thin trading environment. However, a similar approach may be also applied to other markets with thinly traded securities. Our methodology provides reliable market risk measures in portfolios with infrequent trading.

Keywords: Incomplete panels; Kalman Filter; market risk; risk management; thin trading; value-at-risk (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G11 G12 G32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013-10
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