THE JOURNAL OF DERIVATIVES 1 The notion of extreme movements in asset prices is implicit in current risk management practices. Capital adequacy assumes a threshold that classifies observed changes in market risk factors either as extreme or ordinary. A probability is first chosen to measure the “extremeness” of events that may affect a particular portfolio. This probability then determines the ...

Abstract. We investigate properties of a version of tail comonotonicity that can be applied to absolutely continuous distributions, and give several methods for constructions of multivariate distributions with tail comonotonicity or strongest tail dependence. Archimedean copulas as mixtures of powers, and scale mixtures of a non-negative random vector with the mixing distribution having slowly ...

— This paper defends the wisdom of not considering the Digital Economy to be one homogeneous sector. Our hypothesis is that it is best to consider it the result of adding four different subsectors. We test whether indeed the economic and financial performance of a portfolio of listed companies in each of the four subsectors presents relevant differences. We use the value at risk measure to esti...

In order to protect stakeholders of insurance companies and financial institutions against adverse outcomes of risky businesses, regulators and senior management use capital allocation techniques. For enterprise-wide risk management, it has become important to calculate the contribution of each risk within a portfolio. For that purpose, bivariate lower and upper orthant tail value-at-risk can b...

An acceptability measure is a number that summarizes information on monetary outcomes of a given position in various scenarios, and that, depending on context, may be interpreted as a capital requirement or as a price. In a multiperiod setting, it is reasonable to require that an acceptability measure should satisfy certain conditions of time consistency. Various notions of time consistency may...

In the last few decades, risk managers have truly experienced a revolution. The rapid increase in the usage of risk management techniques has spread well beyond derivatives and is totally changing the way institutions approach their financial risk. In response to the financial disasters of the early 1990s a new method called VaR (Value at Risk) was developed as a simple method to quantify marke...

Consider a portfolio of n obligors such as loans, corporate bonds and other instruments subject to possible default. Tang and Yuan (2012, Submitted) introduced a new model for the loss given default and studied its tail behavior, Value at Risk, and Conditional Tail Expectation under the assumption that the losses jointly follow a multivariate regularly varying distribution. However, in the case...

In this study, we analyze the aerospace stocks prices in order to characterize the sector behavior. The data analyzed cover the period from January 1987 to April 1999. We present a new index for the aerospace sector and we investigate the statistical characteristics of this index. Our results show that this index is well described by Tsallis distribution. We explore this result and modify the s...