Beyond the Sample: Extreme Quantile and Probability Estimation

Jon Danielsson and Casper de Vries

No 98-016/2, Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers from Tinbergen Institute

Abstract: Economic problems such as large claims analysis in insurance and value-at-risk in finance, requireassessment of the probability P of extreme realizations Q. This paper provided a semi-parametricmethod for estimation of extreme (P, Q) combinations for data with heavy tails. We solve the longstanding problem of estimating the sample treshold of where the tail of the distribution starts. This isaccomplished by the combination of a control variate type device and a subsample bootstrap technique.The subsample bootstrap attains convergence in probability, whereas the full sample bootstrap wouldonly provide convergence in distribution. This permits a complete and comprehensive treatment ofextreme (P, Q) estimation.

Keywords: Extreme value theory; tail estimation; risk analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1998-02-16
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Working Paper: Beyond the sample: extreme quantile and probability estimation (1998)
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