Essays about: "Point-Over-Threshold method"

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  1. 1. Value at Risk and Expected Shortfall risk measures using Extreme Value Theory

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för nationalekonomi med statistik

    Author : Peter Johansson; [2019-01-22]
    Keywords : Extreme Value Theory; Generalized Pareto Distribution; Point-Over-Threshold method; risk measures; Value at Risk; Expected Shortfall;

    Abstract : Calculating risk measures as Value at Risk (VaR) and Expected Shortfall (ES) has become popular for institutions and agents in financial markets. A main drawback with these risk measures is that they traditionally assume a specific distribution, as the Normal distribution or the Student’s t distribution. READ MORE