Backtesting Value at Risk and Expected Shortfall

In this book Simona Roccioletti reviews several valuable studies about risk measures and their properties; in particular she studies the new (and heavily discussed) property of "Elicitability" of a risk measure. More important, she investigates the issue related to the backtesting of Expec...

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Main Author: Roccioletti, Simona. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Language:English
Published: Wiesbaden : Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden : Imprint: Springer Gabler, 2016.
Edition:1st ed. 2016.
Series:BestMasters,
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-11908-9
Table of Contents:
  • Risk measures and their properties
  • Elicitability
  • Backtesting (VaR and ES)
  • Empirical Analysis
  • MATLAB code.