How is Value at Risk used to measure the China's stock market risk?

With the rapid growth of the increasingly complex trading activities and financial market instability, there is a growing concern of financial risk management throughout the China's stock market. One widely adopted technique to manage risk involves the use of Value-at-Risk (VaR), which is known...

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Main Author: Tao, Ye
Format: Dissertation (University of Nottingham only)
Language:English
Published: 2007
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/21382/
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description With the rapid growth of the increasingly complex trading activities and financial market instability, there is a growing concern of financial risk management throughout the China's stock market. One widely adopted technique to manage risk involves the use of Value-at-Risk (VaR), which is known as the benchmark for quantifying market risk. In the past few years, it has been widely accepted by both practitioners and regulators as the right way to measure risks. The concept of VaR describes the loss that can occur over a given time horizon, at a given confidence level, due to exposure to market risk. However, the use of VaR as a risk measurement is just at the early stages in China's stock market. Thus, this dissertation is dedicated to explain how to estimate VaR of Chinese Stock Index by using the three main approaches (Historical Simulation, GARCH volatility model and Filtered Historical Simulation), and discuss their advantages and limitations as well. Backtesting is conducted to check which VaR forecasting model is more appropriate for China's stock market.
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spelling nottingham-213822022-03-21T16:04:03Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/21382/ How is Value at Risk used to measure the China's stock market risk? Tao, Ye With the rapid growth of the increasingly complex trading activities and financial market instability, there is a growing concern of financial risk management throughout the China's stock market. One widely adopted technique to manage risk involves the use of Value-at-Risk (VaR), which is known as the benchmark for quantifying market risk. In the past few years, it has been widely accepted by both practitioners and regulators as the right way to measure risks. The concept of VaR describes the loss that can occur over a given time horizon, at a given confidence level, due to exposure to market risk. However, the use of VaR as a risk measurement is just at the early stages in China's stock market. Thus, this dissertation is dedicated to explain how to estimate VaR of Chinese Stock Index by using the three main approaches (Historical Simulation, GARCH volatility model and Filtered Historical Simulation), and discuss their advantages and limitations as well. Backtesting is conducted to check which VaR forecasting model is more appropriate for China's stock market. 2007 Dissertation (University of Nottingham only) NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/21382/1/FP.pdf Tao, Ye (2007) How is Value at Risk used to measure the China's stock market risk? [Dissertation (University of Nottingham only)] (Unpublished) Value at risk
spellingShingle Value at risk
Tao, Ye
How is Value at Risk used to measure the China's stock market risk?
title How is Value at Risk used to measure the China's stock market risk?
title_full How is Value at Risk used to measure the China's stock market risk?
title_fullStr How is Value at Risk used to measure the China's stock market risk?
title_full_unstemmed How is Value at Risk used to measure the China's stock market risk?
title_short How is Value at Risk used to measure the China's stock market risk?
title_sort how is value at risk used to measure the china's stock market risk?
topic Value at risk
url https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/21382/