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The aim of this book is to highlight and illustrate selected quantitative techniques for estimating financial risk. The first module in risk assessment is concerned with the risk measure used, whereas the second module is based on the risk estimation technique. The process of risk assessment involves the Value at Risk, popularly known as VaR with some corresponding risk estimators; Expected Shortfall (ES), the Extreme Value Theory (EVT) and the Generalized Pareto Distribution (GPD). The quality of the risk estimation approach with its corresponding techniques studied shall be tested for with real data. Numerical results and programming code shall be provided for the comparative estimators by the R statistical software.Product Identifiers
PublisherLap Lambert Academic Publishing
ISBN-139783659706752
eBay Product ID (ePID)215880578
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SubjectMathematics
Publication Year2015
Number of Pages52 Pages
Publication NameEmpirical Risk Modeling of Financial Time Series Using Value at Risk
LanguageEnglish
TypeTextbook
AuthorNyamekye Kofi, Nyamekye Joyce
FormatPaperback
Dimensions
Item Height229 mm
Item Weight91 g
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Title_AuthorNyamekye Kofi, Nyamekye Joyce