Essays about: "Adam Östblom"

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  1. 1. Examining GARCH forecasts for Value-at-Risk predictions

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Statistiska institutionen

    Author : Dennis Lindholm; Adam Östblom; [2014]
    Keywords : Value-at-Risk; Unconditional coverage; Christoffersen’s; GJR-GARCH;

    Abstract : In this thesis we use the GARCH(1,1) and GJR-GARCH(1,1) models to estimate the conditional variance for five equities from the OMX Nasdaq Stockholm (OMXS) stock exchange. We predict 95% and 99% Value-at-Risk (VaR) using one-day ahead forecasts, under three different error distribution assumptions, the Normal, Student’s t and the General Error Distribution. READ MORE