GARCH dependence in extreme value models with Bayesian inference

GARCH dependence in extreme value models with Bayesian inference

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Article ID: iaor20113052
Volume: 81
Issue: 7
Start Page Number: 1430
End Page Number: 1440
Publication Date: Mar 2011
Journal: Mathematics and Computers in Simulation
Authors: , , ,
Keywords: stochastic processes, risk
Abstract:

This study examines an alternative one stage approach, which makes parameter estimation and accounting for the associated uncertainties more straightforward than the two‐stage approach. The location and scale parameters of the extreme value distribution are defined to follow a conditional autoregressive heteroscedasticity process. Essentially, the model implements GARCH volatility via the extreme value model parameters. Bayesian inference is used and implemented via Markov chain Monte Carlo, to permit all sources of uncertainty to be accounted for. The model is applied to both simulated and empirical data to demonstrate performance in extrapolating the extreme quantiles and quantifying the associated uncertainty. Extreme value methods are widely used in financial applications such as risk analysis, forecasting and pricing models. One of the challenges with their application in finance is accounting for the temporal dependence between the observations, for example the stylised fact that financial time series exhibit volatility clustering. Various approaches have been proposed to capture the dependence. Commonly a two‐stage approach is taken, where the volatility dependence is removed using a volatility model like a GARCH (or one of its many incarnations) followed by application of standard extreme value models to the assumed independent residual innovations.

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