Looking at Extremes without Going to Extremes: A New Self-Exciting Probability Model for Extreme Losses in Financial Markets

Forecasting market risk lies at the core of modern empirical finance. We propose a new self-exciting probability peaks-over-threshold (SEP-POT) model for forecasting the extreme loss probability and the value at risk. The model draws from the point-process approach to the POT methodology but is buil...

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Main Author: Katarzyna Bień-Barkowska
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2020-07-01
Series:Entropy
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/22/7/789