We examine the efficiency of hedging a credit derivative portfolio with a contrary position in a credit index in the face of decreased correlations between single name CDSs and credit indices. The interest of such hedge comes from the fact that the calculation of the capital charge for CVA risk,...

We use stock market data to analyze the quality of alternative models and procedures to estimate Expected Shortfall (ES) at different significance levels. We consider conditional models applied to the full distribution of returns as well as models that focus on tail events using extreme value...

We provide evidence suggesting that the assumption on the probability distribution for return innovations is more influential for Value at Risk (VaR) performance than the conditional volatility specification. We also show that some recently proposed asymmetric probability distributions and the...