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Pitfalls in backtesting Historical Simulation VaR models

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Juan Carlos Escanciano *
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裴沛 (Pei Pei)
DOI:10.1016/j.jbankfin.2012.04.004delete
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Historical Simulation (HS) and its variant, the Filtered Historical Simulation (FHS), are the most popular Value-at-Risk forecast methods at commercial banks. These forecast methods are traditionally evaluated by means of the unconditional backtest. This paper formally shows that the unconditional backtest is always inconsistent for backtesting HS and FHS models, with a power function that can be even smaller than the nominal level in large samples. Our findings have fundamental implications in the determination of market risk capital requirements, and also explain Monte Carlo and empirical findings in previous studies. We also propose a data-driven weighted backtest with good power properties to evaluate HS and MS forecasts. A Monte Carlo study and an empirical application with three US stocks confirm our theoretical findings. The empirical application shows that multiplication factors computed under the current regulatory framework are downward biased, as they inherit the inconsistency of the unconditional backtest. (C) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Keyword:
Backtesting
Basel Accord
Risk management
Value-at-Risk
Conditional quantile
Market risk capital requirements

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Journal of Banking and Finance
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3.8
论文数:
6.4K
被引数:
2.4W

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indiana university system
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4.0W
论文数: 3.5W
被引数: 38
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