Value-at-Risk for Financial Derivative Instruments

With the continuous development of the financial industry, financial risk management is increasingly important, the use of scientific methods to do the risk measure also gradually become a hot field. In this paper, quantitative risk analysis method which is widely recognized by the financial industr...

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Main Author: Lv, Mingyue
Format: Dissertation (University of Nottingham only)
Language:English
Published: 2011
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/24832/
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description With the continuous development of the financial industry, financial risk management is increasingly important, the use of scientific methods to do the risk measure also gradually become a hot field. In this paper, quantitative risk analysis method which is widely recognized by the financial industry is introduced. It is called Value-at-Risk (VaR). Value-at-Risk is one of the most popular ways to estimate risk of financial instruments. Abundant previous work focused on linear portfolio. The researches on nonlinear portfolio are rare. The linear approximations, such as delta-only model or variance-covariance method, will underestimate or overestimate VaR for nonlinear financial instruments or portfolios. This paper aims to examine characteristics of VaR for nonlinear portfolios. Thus, three classic methods which can be applied for nonlinear portfolio have been selected, historical simulation model, quadratic model, and Monte Carlo simulation model. Owing to this article includes introduction about various aspects of VaR models on nonlinear type of derivative instruments, it may be treated as an introduction about this particular field of financial research.
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spelling nottingham-248322017-12-17T23:47:41Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/24832/ Value-at-Risk for Financial Derivative Instruments Lv, Mingyue With the continuous development of the financial industry, financial risk management is increasingly important, the use of scientific methods to do the risk measure also gradually become a hot field. In this paper, quantitative risk analysis method which is widely recognized by the financial industry is introduced. It is called Value-at-Risk (VaR). Value-at-Risk is one of the most popular ways to estimate risk of financial instruments. Abundant previous work focused on linear portfolio. The researches on nonlinear portfolio are rare. The linear approximations, such as delta-only model or variance-covariance method, will underestimate or overestimate VaR for nonlinear financial instruments or portfolios. This paper aims to examine characteristics of VaR for nonlinear portfolios. Thus, three classic methods which can be applied for nonlinear portfolio have been selected, historical simulation model, quadratic model, and Monte Carlo simulation model. Owing to this article includes introduction about various aspects of VaR models on nonlinear type of derivative instruments, it may be treated as an introduction about this particular field of financial research. 2011-09-04 Dissertation (University of Nottingham only) NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/24832/1/dissertation.pdf Lv, Mingyue (2011) Value-at-Risk for Financial Derivative Instruments. [Dissertation (University of Nottingham only)] (Unpublished) Value-at-Risk (VaR) Historical simulation method Quadratic simulation Monte Carlo simulation method nonlinear portfolio Back-testing
spellingShingle Value-at-Risk (VaR)
Historical simulation method
Quadratic simulation
Monte Carlo simulation method
nonlinear portfolio
Back-testing
Lv, Mingyue
Value-at-Risk for Financial Derivative Instruments
title Value-at-Risk for Financial Derivative Instruments
title_full Value-at-Risk for Financial Derivative Instruments
title_fullStr Value-at-Risk for Financial Derivative Instruments
title_full_unstemmed Value-at-Risk for Financial Derivative Instruments
title_short Value-at-Risk for Financial Derivative Instruments
title_sort value-at-risk for financial derivative instruments
topic Value-at-Risk (VaR)
Historical simulation method
Quadratic simulation
Monte Carlo simulation method
nonlinear portfolio
Back-testing
url https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/24832/