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Title: Application of extreme value theory (EVT) to the measurement of risk and asset allocation
Authors: Sharma, Mrinal
P., Phanindra
Keywords: Extreme value theory (EVT);Risk Management;Stock market returns;NIFTY;Value at risk (VaR)
Issue Date: 2005
Publisher: Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad
Series/Report no.: SP;001118
Abstract: This paper is an attempt to understand the application of Extreme value theory to risk management. We attempt to model extreme stock market returns (the NIFTY stock index in particular) as a Generalized Pareto Distribution. We use this distribution to estimate a parametric VAR with various confidence intervals for a daily time period. We then compare this value with a historical simulation VAR.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/11718/20755
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