Portfolio value-at-risk estimation in energy futures markets with time-varying copula-GARCH model

This paper combines copula functions with GARCH-type models to construct the conditional joint distribution, which is used to estimate Value-at-Risk (VaR) of an equally weighted portfolio comprising crude oil futures and natural gas futures in energy market. Both constant and time-varying copulas are applied to fit the dependence structure of the two assets returns. The findings show that the constant Student t copula is a good compromise for effectively fitting the dependence structure between crude oil futures and natural gas futures. Moreover, the skewed Student t distribution has a better fit than Normal and Student t distribution to the marginal distribution of each asset. Asymmetries and excess kurtosis are found in marginal distributions as well as in dependence. We estimate VaR of the underlying portfolio to be 95% and 99%, by using the Monte Carlo simulation. Then using backtesting, we compare the out-of-sample forecasting performances of VaR estimated by different models.     

基于GAS模型的动态VaR预测效果分析

GAS模型是一种基于观测的动态模型,理论简单且应用灵活,可以直接估计VaR.将GAS模型和GARCH类模型应用于不同条件下生成的模拟数据和三个时间段的沪深300指数的日对数收益率数据,并比较模型关于VaR的预测效果。结果表明:在对称的条件分布下,GAS模型容易高估风险且不稳健,其表现不如GARCH类模型;但在条件分布为有偏的时,GAS模型与GARCH类模型的表现相当,部分情况下会优于GARCH类模型,尤其在实证分析中关于序列2和序列3的VaR的估计,GAS模型的预测效果较好。因此,实际应用中,对于具有较明显偏态分布或尖峰分布的数据可以考虑使用GAS模型预测动态VaR.     

基于价格极差的GARCH模型

本文利用资产价格的极差序列,基于常规GARCH模型的框架,构造了一类关于波动率的新模型,即GARCH-R模型以及能够表达波动率变化非对称性特性的AGARCH-R模型。利用上证综合指数日收益率及相应的高频数据,通过比较不同模型对波动率以及VAR的预测效果,揭示了这种包含了极差信息的新的模型比传统的GARCH类模型的预测效果具有显著的优势。     

基于VaR和ES调整的Sharpe比率及在基金评价中的实证研究

传统Sharpe比率将投资收益的标准差作为风险的度量,而实证研究中更关注基金的损失风险而非全部风险,这是收益标准差所无法准确刻画的。针对传统Sharpe比率的这一缺点,本文考虑了用于度量下方风险的指标风险价值VaR(Value at Risk)和预期不足ES(Expected Shortfall)来替代投资收益的标准差,从而对传统Sharpe比率进行了调整。这里对VaR和ES进行计算时,运用了经验非参数估计和非参数平滑核估计两种方法。此外,本文还考虑了基金收益随时间波动的动态性,用广义自回归异方差GARCH模型对收益波动进行模拟,考察动态的VaR和ES,在实践中以动态的VaR和ES评价风险收益更加灵活。在实证研究中,本文用传统的Sharpe比率、基于VaR和ES的Sharpe比率以及基于条件VaR和条件ES的条件Sharpe比率对国内证券市场上所有26只封闭式基金在2005-2009年间的业绩进行了实证分析,分析了基金在不同指标下所体现的风险控制能力和收益水平的差别,并基于不同指标对所有基金进行了排名。此外,本文还运用协整检验考察基金收益率与市场基准指数是否存在联动关系,检验证明两者并不存在长期的均衡关系。     

基于因子分析法的金融高频已实现波动的预测

金融高频数据的已实现波动(RV)在风险管理中扮演着非常重要的角色,已有大量文献对如何预测资产的已实现波动进行了研究.采用因子分析法来预测RV,探讨了不可观测的金融序列的公共因子在预测已实现波动时所起的作用,并考虑了资产价格中跳跃的影响,建立了基于因子分析法的波动预测模型(F-RV-J).从损失函数、MCS检验和在险价值VaR的预测能力三个方面,将F-RV-J模型与其它常用的预测模型进行了比较,发现F-RV-J模型明显要优于其它波动预测模型.     

基于极值统计和高维动态C藤Copula的股市行业集成风险计算

股市诸多行业风险之间存在着波动相依性,集成计量多维风险对投资决策意义重大。藤Copula是Copula函数高维化拓展的一个方向,其动态化是新的研究前沿。将极值理论的GPD模型和高维动态C藤Copula方法结合起来研究沪深300指数中地产、基建、银行和运输四个行业风险,能够有效描述尾部极值形态,突出关键变量的作用。再运用动态Pair-Copula分解,刻画高维行业风险变量间的动态关系,以仿真出动态集成风险变量VaR序列。VaR计算结果通过了回溯检验和稳定性测试,表明高维动态C藤Copula模型可以作为风险集成计量的一种新的有效方法。     

Estimating Value-at-Risk and Expected Shortfall using the intraday low and range data

Value-at-Risk (VaR) is a popular measure of market risk. To convey information regarding potential exceedances beyond the VaR, Expected Shortfall (ES) has become the risk measure for trading book bank regulation. However, the estimation of VaR and ES is challenging, as it requires the estimation of the tail behaviour of daily returns. In this paper, we take advantage of recent research that develops joint scoring functions for VaR and ES. Using these functions, we present a novel approach to estimating the two risk measures based on intraday data. We focus on the intraday range, which is the difference between the highest and lowest intraday log prices. In contrast to intraday observations, the intraday low and high are widely available for many financial assets. To alleviate the challenge of modelling extreme risk measures, we propose the use of the intraday low series. We draw on a theoretical result for Brownian motion to show that a quantile of the daily returns can be estimated as the product of a constant term and a less extreme quantile of the intraday low returns, which we define as the difference between the lowest log price of the day and the log closing price of the previous day. In view of this, we use estimates of the VaR and ES of the intraday low returns to estimate the VaR and ES of the daily returns. We provide empirical support for the new proposals using data for five stock indices and five individual stocks.     

Forecasting model with asymmetric market response and its application to pricing of consumer package goods

This paper presents a dynamic forecasting model that accommodates asymmetric market responses to marketing mix variable—price promotion—by threshold models. As a threshold variable to generate a mechanism for different market responses, we use the counterpart to the concept of a price threshold applied to a representative consumer in a store. A Bayesian approach is taken for statistical modelling because of advantages that it offers over estimation and forecasting. The proposed model incorporates the lagged effects of a price variable. Thereby, myriad pricing strategies can be implemented in the time horizon. Their effectiveness can be evaluated using the predictive density. We intend to improve the forecasting performance over conventional linear time series models. Furthermore, we discuss efficient dynamic pricing in a store using strategic simulations under some scenarios suggested by an estimated structure of the models. Empirical studies illustrate the superior forecasting performance of our model against conventional linear models in terms of the root mean square error of the forecasts. Useful information for dynamic pricing is derived from its structural parameter estimates. This paper develops a dynamic forecasting model that accommodates asymmetric market responses to marketing mix variable—price promotion—by the threshold models. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

t-分布与不同风险度量下有效投资组合及其边缘的相互关系研究

In order to study the effect of different risk measures on the efficient portfolios (frontier) while properly describing the characteristic of return distributions in the stock market, it is assumed in this paper that the joint return distribution of risky assets obeys the multivariate t-distribution. Under the mean-risk analysis framework, the interrelationship of efficient portfolios (frontier) based on risk measures such as variance, value at risk (VaR), and expected shortfall (ES) is analyzed and compared. It is proved that, when there is no riskless asset in the market, the efficient frontier under VaR or ES is a subset of the mean-variance (MV) efficient frontier, and the efficient portfolios under VaR or ES are also MV efficient; when there exists a riskless asset in the market, a portfolio is MV efficient if and only if it is a VaR or ES efficient portfolio. The obtained results generalize relevant conclusions about investment theory, and can better guide investors to make their investment decision.     

STUDY ON THE INTERRELATION OF EFFICIENT PORTFOLIOS AND THEIR FRONTIER UNDER t DISTRIBUTION AND VARIOUS RISK MEASURES

In order to study the effect of different risk measures on the efficient portfolios (frontier) while properly describing the characteristic of return distributions in the stock market, it is assumed in this paper that the joint return distribution of risky assets obeys the multivari-ate t-distribution. Under the mean-risk analysis framework, the interrelationship of efficient portfolios (frontier) based on risk measures such as variance, value at risk (VaR), and expected shortfall (ES) is analyzed and compared. It is proved that, when there is no riskless asset in the market, the efficient frontier under VaR or ES is a subset of the mean-variance (MV) efficient frontier, and the efficient portfolios under VaR or ES are also MV efficient; when there exists a riskless asset in the market, a portfolio is MV efficient if and only if it is a VaR or ES efficient portfolio. The obtained results generalize relevant conclusions about investment theory, and can better guide investors to make their investment decision.     

STUDY ON THE INTERRELATION OF EFFICIENT PORTFOLIOS AND THEIR FRONTIER UNDER t DISTRIBUTION AND VARIOUS RISK MEASUREgS

In order to study the effect of different risk measures on the efficient portfolios （fron- tier） while properly describing the characteristic of return distributions in the stock market, it is assumed in this paper that the joint return distribution of risky assets obeys the multivariate t-distribution. Under the mean-risk analysis framework, the interrelationship of efficient portfolios （frontier） based on risk measures such as variance, value at risk （VaR）, and expected shortfall （ES） is analyzed and compared. It is proved that, when there is no riskless asset in the market, the efficient frontier under VaR or ES is a subset of the mean-variance （MV） efficient frontier, and the efficient portfolios under VaR or ES are also MV efficient; when there exists a riskless asset in the market, a portfolio is MV efficient if and only if it is a VaR or ES efficient portfolio. The obtained results generalize relevant conclusions about investment theory, and can better guide investors to make their investment decision.     

Estimating value at risk of portfolio by conditional copula-GARCH method

Copula functions represent a methodology that describes the dependence structure of a multi-dimension random variable and has become one of the most significant new tools to handle risk factors in finance, such as Value-at Risk (VaR), which is probably the most widely used risk measure in financial institutions. Combining copula and the forecast function of the GARCH model, this paper proposes a new method, called conditional copula-GARCH, to compute the VaR of portfolios. This work presents an application of the copula-GARCH model in the estimation of a portfolio’s VaR, composed of NASDAQ and TAIEX. The empirical results show that, compared with traditional methods, the copula model captures the VaR more successfully. In addition, the Student-t copula describes the dependence structure of the portfolio return series quite well.     

极值理论在风险度量中的应用--基于上证180指数

精确度量风险是金融风险管理的关键问题。本引入广义帕雷托分布代替传统的正态分布等，精确描述金融收益的厚尾特征。并将基于广义帕雷托分布的VaR模型和其它模型方法，如GARCH(1，1)、GARCH(1，1)-t、历史模拟法、方差-协方差方法，进行比较分析。实证研究表明，基于广义帕雷托分布的VaR模型比传统的模型方法更适合厚尾分布高分位点的预测，并且其预测结果比较稳定。这使得基于广义帕雷托分布的VaR模型成为VaR度量方法中最稳健的方法之一。     

基于GARCH族模型的沪深300股指VaR度量

本文在修正了沪深300股票指数收益率序列的非平稳性和自身相关性之后,把ARMA模型与GARCH模型、GJR模型、IGARCH模型、FIGARCH模型、FIEGARCH模型、FIAPARCH模型、HYGARCH模型相结合,然后依次假设残差分布服从正态分布、t分布和偏t分布,来描述沪深300股票指数日对数收益率序列的尖峰厚尾性、杠杆效应和长记忆特性,利用上述模型分别计算沪深300股票指数的VaR值.在空头和多头投资者情况下,不同的波动性模型和不同残差分布的VaR预测有效性差距很大.比较得知,在不同的置信水平下,沪深300股票指数收益率序列空头和多头的VaR预测成功概率比较高的模型有HYGARCH和FIEGARCH这两类具有长记忆性的模型.     

Value at risk calculation through ARCH factor methodology: Proposal and comparative analysis

In this paper we put forward a new method to estimate value at risk (VaR), autoregressive conditional heteroskedastic (ARCH) factor, which combines multivariate analysis with ARCH models. Firstly, from a set of correlated portfolio risk factors, we derive a smaller uncorrelated risk factors set, by applying multivariate analysis. Secondly, we use ARCH schemes to model uncorrelated factors historical behaviour. Thirdly, we use the estimated models to predict future values for factors standard deviation. From them, VaR calculation is immediate. In this way, ARCH factor methodology overcomes the multivariate ARCH models drawbacks, which, in practice, make these unworkable for VaR calculation purposes. We apply the proposed methodology over a set of foreign exchange risk exposed portfolios, obtaining better results than those reached when J.P. Morgan’s Riskmetrics is used.     

基于加权支持向量机的VaR计算方法研究

针对统计学框架下传统VaR计算方法的不足，发展了基于加权支持向量机（W—SVM）的VaR计算新方法．为了在VaR模型中计入金融时间序列的记忆效应，采用最优市场因子作为支持向量机的加权模型．对2001—2009年上证综指的实证研究表明，基于W—SVM的VaR模型优于传统的VaR方法，在小样本、厚尾、非线性及有异常波动的市场条件下，各种置信度下的W—SVM方法均能取得较好的性能．     

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。     

Bayesian Nonparametric Inference for a Multivariate Copula Function

The paper presents a general Bayesian nonparametric approach for estimating a high dimensional copula. We first introduce the skew–normal copula, which we then extend to an infinite mixture model. The skew–normal copula fixes some limitations in the Gaussian copula. An MCMC algorithm is developed to draw samples from the correct posterior distribution and the model is investigated using both simulated and real applications.     

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Skewed-t分布的FIGARCH模型与VaR的度量

金融资产收益率序列的波动具有典型的尖峰厚尾和非对称性特征,描述这种特性需以合适的概率分布函数为基础.因此,寻求更好的概率分布函数对风险度量、VaR的计算有着十分重要的意义.有鉴于此引入Skewed-t分布度量VaR,并比较分析了RiskMetrics及FIGARCH类模型度量VaR值的准确程度,本文同时分析了多头头寸和空头头寸情况下的VaR.结果表明,在两种头寸情况下,Skewed-t分布在空头和多头情形对资产厚尾特性以及非对称性的拟合效果均要比正态分布好;在两种头寸中不同的置信水平下,FIAGARCH(CHUNG)模型预测的VaR值改进了使用传统模型的精确性,高估或低估风险的程度较轻.