The incidence of rare but extreme events appears to be significant in worldwide financial markets. In this chapter we apply extreme value theory (EVT) distributions to predict extreme losses of five South African (SA) financial times stock exchange/Johannesburg Stock Exchange (FTSE/JSE) closing...

In this chapter, both Maximum likelihood estimation (MLE) and Bayesian MCMC estimation methods are used to test their parameters estimation power while estimating a Markov-Switching generalized autoregressive conditional heteroscedasticity (MS-GARCH) model. The monthly exchange rates of BRICS...