Islamic banks differ significantly in that they typically mobilise funds in the form of Profit Sharing Investments Accounts that are remunerated on the basis of sharing the actual returns on assets financed by the investment funds, with the Investment Account Holders. In theory, the profits are...

The aim of this paper is to apply a semi-parametric methodology developed by Mesfioui and Quessy (2005) to derive the Value-at-Risk bounds for portfolios of possibly dependent financial assets when the marginal return distribution is in the domain of attraction of the generalized extreme value...

The aim of this paper is to derive a coherent risk measure for heavy tailed GARCH processes using extreme value theory. For the proposed measure, the risk associated to a given portfolio is less than the sum of the stand-alone risks of its components. This measure which is value at risk (VaR),...