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标题：Evaluating South Africa’s market risk using asymmetric power auto-regressive conditional heteroscedastic model under heavy-tailed distributions
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作者：Retius Chifurira ; Knowledge Chinhamu
期刊名称：Journal of Economic and Financial Sciences
印刷版ISSN：1995-7076
电子版ISSN：2312-2803
出版年度：2019
卷号：12
期号：1
页码：11-21
DOI：10.4102/jef.v12i1.475
摘要：Abstract Orientation: Value-at-risk (VAR) and other risk management tools, such as expected shortfall (conditional VAR), are heavily reliant on a suitable set of underlying distributional conjecture. Thus, distinguishing the underlying distribution that best captures all properties of stock returns is of great interest to both scholars and risk managers. Research purpose: Comparing the execution of the generalised auto-regressive conditional heteroscedasticity (GARCH)-type model combined with heavy-tailed distributions, namely the Student’s t -distribution, Pearson type-IV distribution (PIVD), generalised Pareto distribution (GPD) and stable distribution (SD), in estimating VAR of Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) All Share Price Index (ALSI) returns. Motivation for the study: The proposed models have the potential to apprehend volatility clustering and the leverage effect through the GARCH scheme and at the same time model the heavy-tailed behaviour of the financial returns. Research approach/design and method: The GARCH-type model combined with heavy-tailed distributions, namely the Student’s t -distribution, PIVD, GPD and SD, is developed to estimate VAR of JSE ALSI returns. The model performances are assessed through Kupiec likelihood ratio test. Main findings: The results show that the asymmetric power auto-regressive conditional heteroscedastic models combined with GPD and PIVD are the robust VAR models for South African’s market risk. Practical/managerial implications: The outcomes of this study are expected to be of salient value to financial analysts, portfolio managers, risk managers and financial market researchers, thus giving a better understanding of the South African financial market. Contributions/value-add: Asymmetric power auto-regressive conditional heteroscedastic model combined with heavy-tailed distributions provides a good option for modelling stock returns.
其他摘要：Orientation: Value-at-risk (VAR) and other risk management tools, such as expected shortfall (conditional VAR), are heavily reliant on a suitable set of underlying distributional conjecture. Thus, distinguishing the underlying distribution that best captures all properties of stock returns is of great interest to both scholars and risk managers. Research purpose: Comparing the execution of the generalised auto-regressive conditional heteroscedasticity (GARCH)-type model combined with heavy-tailed distributions, namely the Student’s t -distribution, Pearson type-IV distribution (PIVD), generalised Pareto distribution (GPD) and stable distribution (SD), in estimating VAR of Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) All Share Price Index (ALSI) returns. Motivation for the study: The proposed models have the potential to apprehend volatility clustering and the leverage effect through the GARCH scheme and at the same time model the heavy-tailed behaviour of the financial returns. Research approach/design and method: The GARCH-type model combined with heavy-tailed distributions, namely the Student’s t -distribution, PIVD, GPD and SD, is developed to estimate VAR of JSE ALSI returns. The model performances are assessed through Kupiec likelihood ratio test. Main findings: The results show that the asymmetric power auto-regressive conditional heteroscedastic models combined with GPD and PIVD are the robust VAR models for South African’s market risk. Practical/managerial implications: The outcomes of this study are expected to be of salient value to financial analysts, portfolio managers, risk managers and financial market researchers, thus giving a better understanding of the South African financial market. Contributions/value-add: Asymmetric power auto-regressive conditional heteroscedastic model combined with heavy-tailed distributions provides a good option for modelling stock returns.
关键词：asymmetric volatility models; value-at-risk; heavy-tailed distributions; JSE All Share Index; backtesting.
其他关键词：asymmetric volatility models;value-at-risk;heavy-tailed distributions;JSE All Share Index; backtesting