Do Nonparametric Measures of Extreme Equity Risk Change the Parametric Ordinal Ranking? Evidence from Asia

There has been much discussion in the literature about how central measures of equity risk such as standard deviation fail to account for extreme tail risk of equities. Similarly, parametric measures of value at risk (VaR) may also fail to account for extreme risk as they assume a normal distributio...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Robert J. Powell, Duc H. Vo, Thach N. Pham
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2018-10-01
Series:Risks
Subjects:
VaR
Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2227-9091/6/4/121