Dowd (version 0.12)

FrechetVaR: Frechet Value at Risk

Description

Estimates the VaR of a portfolio assuming extreme losses are Frechet distributed, for specified range of confidence level and a given holding period.

Usage

FrechetVaR(mu, sigma, tail.index, n, cl, hp)

Arguments

mu

Location parameter for daily L/P

sigma

Scale parameter for daily L/P

tail.index

Tail index

n

Block size from which maxima are drawn

cl

Confidence level

hp

Holding period

Value

Value at Risk. If cl and hp are scalars, it returns scalar VaR. If cl is vector and hp is a scalar, or viceversa, returns vector of VaRs. If both cl and hp are vectors, returns a matrix of VaRs.

Details

Note that the long-right-hand tail is fitted to losses, not profits.

References

Dowd, K. Measuring Market Risk, Wiley, 2007.

Embrechts, P., Kluppelberg, C. and Mikosch, T., Modelling Extremal Events for Insurance and Finance. Springer, Berlin, 1997, p. 324.

Reiss, R. D. and Thomas, M. Statistical Analysis of Extreme Values from Insurance, Finance, Hydrology and Other Fields, Birkhaueser, Basel, 1997, 15-18.

Examples

# Computes VaR assuming Frechet Distribution for given parameters
   FrechetVaR(3.5, 2.3, 1.6, 10, .95, 30)