Estimating financial risk measures for futures positions: a non-parametric approach

Cotter, John and Dowd, Kevin (2007): Estimating financial risk measures for futures positions: a non-parametric approach.

Abstract

This paper presents non-parametric estimates of spectral risk measures applied to long and short positions in 5 prominent equity futures contracts. It also compares these to estimates of two popular alternative measures, the Value-at-Risk (VaR) and Expected Shortfall (ES). The spectral risk measures are conditioned on the coefficient of absolute risk aversion, and the latter two are conditioned on the confidence level. Our findings indicate that all risk measures increase dramatically and their estimators deteriorate in precision when their respective conditioning parameter increases. Results also suggest that estimates of spectral risk measures and their precision levels are of comparable orders of magnitude as those of more conventional risk measures. Running head: financial risk measures for futures positions.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Institution: University College Dublin
• Language: English
• Subjects: G - Financial Economics > G1 - General Financial Markets > G10 - General; G - Financial Economics > G0 - General > G00 - General

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