Measuring risk is a crucial aspect of the portfolio optimization problem in finance, and of capital adequacy assessment in risk management. Expected Shortfall (ES) has been proposed as a coherent risk measure, by contrast with Value-at-Risk (VaR) and the standard-deviation-type of measures....

This paper analyses the time-varying conditional correlations between Chinese A and B share returns using the Dynamic Conditional Correlation (DCC) model of Engle [Engle, R.F. (2002), "Dynamic Conditional Correlation: A Simple Class of Multivariate Generalized Autoregressive Conditional...

In this thesis we are interested in financial risk and the instrument we want to use is Value-at-Risk (VaR). VaR is the maximum loss over a given period of time at a given confidence level. Many definitions of VaR exist and some will be introduced throughout this thesis. There two main ways to...

The aim of this thesis is to improve risk measurement estimation by incorporating extra information in the form of constraint into completely non-parametric smoothing techniques. A similar approach has been applied in empirical likelihood analysis. The method of constraints incorporates...

In this thesis we propose a risk management methodology to high-dimensional financial portfolios. Instead of estimating the joint density of the portfolios in a high-dimensional space, we are encouraged by using the independent component analysis (ICA) to decompose the dependent risk factors to...

There has been an on-going debate about choices of the most suitable model amongst avariety of model specifications and parameterizations. The first dissertation essay investigateswhether asymmetric leptokurtic return distributions such as Hansen’s (1994) skewed tdistributioncombined with...

In this paper dependence between credit default swap (CDS) values and stock price movements of the largest European banking groups is examined and effectiveness of the usage of CDS contracts as a tool to hedge exposure to the price movements of the underlying stock during the pre-crisis and...

Value-at-risk (VaR) model as a tool to estimate market risk is considered in the thesis. It is a statistical model defined as the maximum future loss due to likely changes in the value of financial assets portfolio during a certain period with a certain probability. A new definition of the...

Disertacijoje nagrinėjamas vertės pokyčio rizikos modelis. Tai toks statistinis modelis, kurį taikant su tam tikra tikimybe įvertinamas didžiausias galimas nustatyto laikotarpio nuostolis, kredito įstaigos patiriamas dėl neigiamų taikomos finansinės priemonės vertės pokyčių....

Forecasting financial risk and risk measurement methods have been of increasing interest for financial market regulators and financial institutions in the past two decades. While the parametric and semi-parametric models have been widely reviewed in the academic literature, the non-parametric...