Backtesting the Tail Risk of VaR in Holding US dollar

Wong, Woon K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6892-9965 2009. Backtesting the Tail Risk of VaR in Holding US dollar. Applied Financial Economics 19 (4) , pp. 327-337. 10.1080/09603100802167312

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Abstract

US dollar is the most widely held currency in the world. In recent years, however, it suffered huge depreciation. In this article, various risk models are used to forecast the Value-at-Risk (VaR) in holding the currency. Being a quantile measure, VaR disregards valuable information conveyed by the sizes of tail losses. As a result, there is tail risk (TR) in the use of VaR in practice. Saddlepoint technique is used to backtest TR of VaR by summing all the tail losses. Substantial downside TR are detected in the US currency, and Asymmetric Power ARCH with normal inverse Gaussian innovation is found capable of capturing such risks.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Business (Including Economics)
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory H Social Sciences > HG Finance
Publisher:	Routledge
ISSN:	0960-3107
Last Modified:	24 Oct 2022 11:44
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/49187

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