基于Copula的供应链金融质物组合价格风险测度研究

本文选取白银、铝和铜三种供应链金融质物作为研究对象,在分析三种质物收益率统计特征的基础上,引入Copula模型刻画供应链金融业务中质物收益率的“尖峰厚尾”特征以及质物收益率之间的非线性相关结构;采用Monte Carlo模拟方法测度考虑到极端情况下的质物组合价格风险值CVaR;利用时间平方根法则测度长周期视角下质物组合的价格风险。将CVaR与VaR测度结果进行对比,比较分析短期价格风险与长期价格风险,将Copula模型与传统风险测度方法下计算出的风险值进行对比,以期选取最优测度供应链金融质物组合长期价格风险模型。研究结果表明:从单一质物价格波动特征来看,三种单一质物的收益率均存在非正态分布和“尖峰厚尾”特征,具有一般金融资产收益率分布的特点。从模型的有效性来看,第一,CVaR比VaR能够更好地、全面地测度供应链金融质物组合的价格风险;第二,基于Copula模型的风险测度结果比传统集成风险测度结果的准确性高;第三,平方欧式距离法结果表明在五种Copula模型中,t-Copula是最优刻画供应链金融质物组合收益率间的相依关系的模型。从长短期风险测度结果来看,随着风险期限的增加,质物组合的价格风险值随之增大,以往研究中用短期风险测度往往会低估商业银行所面临的价格风险,不利于商业银行资金信贷的优化配置。得到的结论对我国商业银行开展供应链金融业务防范价格风险提供了量化支持。     

基于期货、期权与现货组合的采购决策和风险控制研究

针对企业大宗原材料采购容易受到上游价格和下游需求的不确定性影响这一问题,本文以制造商(或分销商)多阶段采购决策为研究对象,建立了包含期货、期权和现货三种采购方式的多阶段组合采购决策模型,以此来应对采购中的价格风险和库存风险.结合某钢构厂原材料采购问题,采用蒙特卡罗仿真方法进行求解.通过对比组合方式与现货方式的求解结果,证明了组合采购方式能够在各种采购环境下为采购商带来更高更稳定的利润,所提出的组合采购决策模型能够有效的规避风险.     

Pricing Bounds for Volatility Derivatives via Duality and Least Squares Monte Carlo

Derivatives on the Chicago Board Options Exchange volatility index have gained significant popularity over the last decade. The pricing of volatility derivatives involves evaluating the square root of a conditional expectation which cannot be computed by direct Monte Carlo methods. Least squares Monte Carlo methods can be used, but the sign of the error is difficult to determine. In this paper, we propose a new model-independent technique for computing upper and lower pricing bounds for volatility derivatives. In particular, we first present a general stochastic duality result on payoffs involving convex (or concave) functions. This result also allows us to interpret these contingent claims as a type of chooser options. It is then applied to volatility derivatives along with minor adjustments to handle issues caused by the square root function. The upper bound involves the evaluation of a variance swap, while the lower bound involves estimating a martingale increment corresponding to its hedging portfolio. Both can be achieved simultaneously using a single linear least square regression. Numerical results show that the method works very well for futures, calls and puts under a wide range of parameter choices.     

基于TGARCH-t的混合Copula投资组合风险测度研究

在分析了现有Copula函数在测度投资组合风险不足的情况下,首先充分考虑资产波动的时变性、杠杆效应等特征,选择了TGARCH-t模型进行边缘分布建模.接着引入混合Copula模型来描述投资组合的复杂相关结构,同时利用构造的主对角线距离统计量等方法验证了混合Copula模型的优势.最后通过VaR的蒙特卡洛模拟结果看到,这种方法能更为精确的测度投资组合风险值.     

Heston随机波动率市场中带VaR约束的最优投资策略

本文研究了Heston随机波动率市场下, 基于VaR约束下的动态最优投资组合问题。
假设Heston随机波动率市场由一个无风险资产和一个风险资产构成,投资者的目标为最大化其终端的期望效用。与此同时, 投资者将动态地评估其待选的投资组合的VaR风险,并将其控制在一个可接受的范围之内。本文在合理的假设下,使用动态规划的方法,来求解该问题的最优投资策略。在特定的参数范围内,利用数值方法计算出近似的最优投资策略和相应值函数, 并对结果进行了分析。     

非仿射随机波动率的欧式障碍期权定价

研究非仿射随机波动率模型的欧式障碍期权定价问题时,首先介绍了非仿射随机波动率模型,其次利用投资组合和It^o引理,得到了该模型下扩展的Black-Schole偏微分方程.由于这个方程没有显示解,因此采用对偶蒙特卡罗模拟法计算欧式障碍期权的价格.最后,通过数值实例验证了算法的可行性和准确性.     

基于GARCH-GH模型的上证50ETF期权定价研究

上证50ETF期权是中国推出的首支股票期权.为描述上证50ETF收益率偏态、尖峰、时变波动率等特征,结合GARCH模型和广义双曲(Generalized Hyperbolic,GH)分布两方面的优势,建立GARCH-GH模型为上证50ETF期权定价.在等价鞅测度下,利用蒙特卡罗方法估计上证50ETF欧式认购期权价格.实证表明,相比较Black-Scholes模型和GARCH-Gaussian模型,GARCH-GH模型得到的结果更接近于上证50ETF期权的实际价格,其定价误差最小.     

Robust asset allocation with conditional value at risk using the forward search

The well‐known Markowitz approach to portfolio allocation, based on expected returns and their covariance, seems to provide questionable results in financial management. One motivation for the pitfall is that financial returns have heavier than Gaussian tails, so the covariance of returns, used in the Markowitz model as a measure of portfolio risk, is likely to provide a loose quantification of the effective risk. Additionally, the Markowitz approach is very sensitive to small changes in either the expected returns or their correlation, often leading to irrelevant portfolio allocations. More recent allocation techniques are based on alternative risk measures, such as value at risk (VaR) and conditional VaR (CVaR), which are believed to be more accurate measures of risk for fat‐tailed distributions. Nevertheless, both VaR and CVaR estimates can be influenced by the presence of extreme returns. In this paper, we discuss sensitivity to the presence of extreme returns and outliers when optimizing the allocation, under the constraint of keeping CVaR to a minimum. A robust and efficient approach, based on the forward search, is suggested. A Monte Carlo simulation study shows the advantages of the proposed approach, which outperforms both robust and nonrobust alternatives under a variety of specifications. The performance of the method is also thoroughly evaluated with an application to a set of US stocks.     

具有GARCH-skew-t误差项的时序的单位根检验

本文通过随机模拟,分析条件分布为偏t分布、具有自回归条件异方差误差项的时间序列的ADF单位根检验的临界值、检验的有效性和实际显著水平的扭曲分析。结果显示,随着波动持久性的增强,已不能直接使用Fu ller的临界值表。     

A multi-stage financial hedging approach for the procurement of manufacturing materials

This paper addresses the problem of mitigating procurement risk that arises from volatile commodity prices by proposing a hedging strategy within a multi-stage time frame. The proposed multi-stage hedging strategy requires a commodity futures position to be correctly initialised and rebalanced with adequate volumes of short/long positions, so as to reduce the volatility in the total procurement cost that would otherwise be generated by varying commodity spot prices. The novelty in the approach is the introduction of the rebalancing of commodity futures position at defined intermediate stages. To obtain an efficient or near optimal multi-stage hedging strategy, a discrete-time stochastic control model (DSCM) is developed. Numerical experiments and Monte Carlo simulation are used to show that the proposed multi-stage hedging strategy compares favourably with the minimal-variance hedge and the one-stage hedge. A close-form optimal solution is also presented for the case when procurement volume and price are independent.     

Time-dependent and independent control rules for coordinated production and pricing under demand uncertainty and finite planning horizons

We address the effect of uncertainty on a manufacturer’s dynamic production and pricing decisions over a finite planning horizon. The demand for products, which depends on their price, is characterized by two stochastic processes: potential demand and customer price sensitivity. An optimal policy for coordinating production and pricing is a time-dependent feedback rule with respect to the state of the manufacturer’s inventories. We show that when the volatility of customer sensitivity to the product price is negligible, the optimal policy can be obtained analytically. Moreover, our simulations demonstrate that the volatility of stochastic customer price sensitivity does not have a strong effect on the manufacturer’s expected profit. Therefore, the solution derived for the case of customer price sensitivity with zero volatility can serve as a good approximation heuristic for the optimal policy if the true volatility of customer price sensitivity is within 40 % of its mean and the volatility of potential demand is within 25 % of its mean. Moreover, under these conditions, a simplified, time-independent control rule deteriorates expected profits by only 1.5 %.     

Quantile forecasting based on a bivariate hysteretic autoregressive model with GARCH errors and time ‐varying correlations

To understand and predict chronological dependence in the second‐order moments of asset returns, this paper considers a multivariate hysteretic autoregressive (HAR) model with generalized autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity (GARCH) specification and time‐varying correlations, by providing a new method to describe a nonlinear dynamic structure of the target time series. The hysteresis variable governs the nonlinear dynamics of the proposed model in which the regime switch can be delayed if the hysteresis variable lies in a hysteresis zone. The proposed setup combines three useful model components for modeling economic and financial data: (1) the multivariate HAR model, (2) the multivariate hysteretic volatility models, and (3) a dynamic conditional correlation structure. This research further incorporates an adapted multivariate Student t innovation based on a scale mixture normal presentation in the HAR model to tolerate for dependence and different shaped innovation components. This study carries out bivariate volatilities, Value at Risk, and marginal expected shortfall based on a Bayesian sampling scheme through adaptive Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods, thus allowing to statistically estimate all unknown model parameters and forecasts simultaneously. Lastly, the proposed methods herein employ both simulated and real examples that help to jointly measure for industry downside tail risk.     

Adaptive integration for multi-factor portfolio credit loss models

We propose algorithms of adaptive integration for calculation of the tail probability in multi-factor credit portfolio loss models. We first modify the classical Genz-Malik rule, a deterministic multiple integration rule suitable for portfolio credit models with number of factors less than 8. Later on we arrive at the adaptive Monte Carlo integration, which essentially replaces the deterministic integration rule by antithetic random numbers. The latter can not only handle higher-dimensional models but is also able to provide reliable probabilistic error bounds. Both algorithms are asymptotic convergent and consistently outperform the plain Monte Carlo method.     

基于区间分析的投资组合VaR计算新方法

基于区间分析估计变量的累计概率分布是进行风险价值分析的一种新方法。本文将区间分析运用到股票投资组合的VaR计算中,研究区间分析在VaR计算方法中的应用。首先给出了基于区间分析估计分布函数的计算步骤,然后将区间分析运用到VaR的计算中,以两只股票的投资组合为例得出收益率的累计概率分布,从中得到某一置信度下的VaR值,最后与蒙特卡洛模拟方法做了比较研究,结果表明,基于区间分析的VaR计算方法的运算精度和计算速度明显优于蒙特卡洛模拟方法。     

Regularizing Portfolio Risk Analysis: A Bayesian Approach

It is important for a portfolio manager to estimate and analyze portfolio volatility, to keep the portfolio’s risk within limit. Though the number of financial instruments in the portfolio can be very large, sometimes more than thousands, daily returns considered for analysis are only for a month or even less. In this case rank of portfolio covariance matrix is less than full, hence solution is not unique. It is typically known as the “ill-posed” problem. In this paper we discuss a Bayesian approach to regularize the problem. One of the additional advantages of this approach is to analyze the source of risk by estimating the probability of positive ‘conditional contribution to total risk’ (CCTR). Each source’s CCTR would sum up to the portfolio’s total volatility risk. Existing methods only estimate CCTR of a source, and does not estimate the probability of CCTR to be significantly greater (or less) than zero. This paper presents Bayesian methodology to do so. We propose a simple Monte Carlo (MC) approach to achieve our objective, which can be paralleled. Estimation of various risk measures, such as Value at Risk and Expected Shortfall, becomes a by-product of this Monte-Carlo approach.     

沪深股市的相关结构分析与投资组合风险度量——基于ARFIMA-GARCH-Copula模型

金融资产收益率不仅具有尖峰厚尾性、异方差性,还具有长记忆性。基于此,本文建立ARFIMA-GARCH-Copula模型来研究沪深股市的相关结构和等权重投资组合风险值VaR,利用上证指数和深成指数收益率的组合来进行实证研究。首先采用经典R/S分析法检验各个资产收益率的长记忆性,经过分数阶差分后选用GARCH模型建模得到边缘分布。然后选择Copula函数来刻画两资产之间的相关结构,建立联合分布模型。进而采用Monte Carlo方法模拟产生各资产的收益率序列,计算出投资组合的风险值VaR。实证研究表明:沪深股市具有长记忆性,且两者具有对称的尾部相关性;Kupiec检验说明ARFIMA-GARCH-Copula模型较之于GARCH-Copula模型能更准确地度量投资组合风险。     

基于鞍点逼近的投资组合极端风险贡献度测度

在当今金融市场资产价格高波动的背景下,度量投资组合中各资产对总体风险的风险贡献度对探析投资组合风险波动不定的深层次原因有重要意义。关于风险贡献度的测算,目前运用较广泛的是历史数据法,其主要适用于存在大量数据样本且持续期较短的情况。特别地,极端情况下的风险贡献度估计主要由处于分布尾部的少量观测值决定,因此历史数据法估计的准确性此时较难保证,为此,本文对鞍点逼近模型优化并考察上述情形。通过对中国股市进行实证分析发现,与传统历史数据法相比,鞍点逼近模型呈现下列优点:投资组合分布函数简洁、风险贡献度计算效率和准确性较高,压力测试表明该方法具有较好的稳健性。因此该方法有望对投资组合的风险预警与防范起到决策支持作用。     

基于Copula-GJR-Skewt模型的投资组合风险预测研究

针对多元投资组合的风险预测,采用GJR-Skewt模型刻画单资产的厚尾、有偏特征,以及Copula模型刻画多元投资组合的非线性相关结构,用Monte Carlo方法模拟金融资产的随机分布,并结合滚动时间窗法,对投资组合的未来风险进行样本外动态预测.实证结果表明,Copula-GJR-Skewt模型对资产收益的风险预测能取得满意的效果;在VaR预测性能上,以GJR-Skewt模型作为边缘分布函数时,即使存在系统偏差,也能取得最优预测结果;预设残差服从有偏学生分布时,VaR的预测结果优于正态分布;传统的Garch-Guassian模型预测能力最差.     

基于蒙特卡罗模拟的供应链风险估计研究

以市场需求波动风险为例,基于蒙特卡罗模拟研究了供应链风险估计问题.首先,对市场需求波动风险及其损失度量进行理论分析,利用市场需求波动风险情境下的供应链系统库存成本损失来度量市场需求波动风险的损失.其次,选择供应链末端需求为蒙特卡罗方法待模拟的随机变量,基于需求建立了市场需求波动风险概率测度模型和风险损失度量模型,确定了市场需求波动风险概率和风险损失为需求的相关量.然后,通过实例的仿真求解验证了模型.最后,给出了利用本模型方法进行供应链风险估计时需要注意的问题及进一步研究的问题.研究表明:蒙特卡罗方法对供应链风险估计具有较强的鲁棒性.     

A GARCH option pricing model with α-stable innovations

We develop an option pricing model which is based on a GARCH asset return process with α-stable innovations with truncated tails. The approach utilizes a canonic martingale measure as pricing measure which provides the possibility of a model calibration to market prices. The GARCH-stable option pricing model allows the explanation of some well-known anomalies in empirical data as volatility clustering and heavy tailedness of the return distribution. Finally, the results of Monte Carlo simulations concerning the option price and the implied volatility with respect to different strike and maturity levels are presented.