Is Value-at-Risk (VaR) a Fair Proxy for Market Risk Under Conditions of Market Leverage?

Ex-post intraday market-risk extrema are compared with ex-ante standard RiskMetrics parametric Value-at-Risk (VaR) limits for three foreign currency futures markets (British Pound, Japanese Yen, Swiss Frank) to determine whether forecasted volatility of market returns based on settlement price data...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lang, Todd M.
Other Authors: Economics
Format: Others
Published: Virginia Tech 2014
Subjects:
VaR
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/36361
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-12212000-222116/