Heavy-tailed value-at-risk analysis for Malaysian stock exchange

This article investigates the comparison of power-law value-at-risk (VaR) evaluation with quantile and non-linear time-varying volatility approaches. A simple Pareto distribution is proposed to account the heavy-tailed property in the empirical distribution of returns. Alternative VaR measurement su...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: CHIN, W
Format: Article
Published: ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV 2008
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Online Access:http://shdl.mmu.edu.my/2656/