Assessing the accuracy of risk models in the Malaysian market

Zatul Karamah Ahmad Baharul-Ulum and Ismail Ahmad and Norhana binti Salamudin (2012) Assessing the accuracy of risk models in the Malaysian market. Asian Journal of Business and Management Sciences, 1 (7). pp. 48-59. ISSN 2047-2528

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Abstract

This paper presents Value-at-Risk (VaR) models that are integrated with several volatility representations to estimate the market risk for the Malaysian non-financial sectors data. The models are used to obtain daily volatility forecasts and these volatilities are used to estimate the Value-at-Risk (VaR) for each sector based on the Monte Carlo Simulation (MCS) approach. In a sample over the years from 1993 until 2010 for three non-financial sectors sample namely Industrial Product (INP), Property (PRP) and Trade and Services (TAS) sectors, the expected maximum losses were quantified at 95% confidence level. Several accuracy tests namely the Kupiec, Christoffersen and Lopez tests are conducted to complement the estimates. The final results provide evidence that consideration of fat-tails and asymmetries are crucial issues when deciding to estimate VaR in managing financial risk.

Item Type: Article
Keyword: Value-at-Risk, volatility modelling, accuracy test
Subjects: H Social Sciences > HB Economic theory. Demography
Depositing User: SITI AZIZAH BINTI IDRIS -
Date Deposited: 21 Oct 2013 13:28
Last Modified: 11 Oct 2017 15:06
URI: https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/7287

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