Out of Sample Value-at-Risk and Backtesting with the Standardized Pearson Type-IV Skewed Distribution

Authors

  • Stavros Stavroyiannis Technological Educational Institute of Kalamata, Department of Finance and Auditing, Greece
  • Leonidas Zarangas Technological Educational Institute of Kalamata, Department of Finance and Auditing, Greece

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.2298/PAN1302231S

Keywords:

Value-at-Risk, Econometric modeling, GARCH, Pearson type-IV distribution

Abstract

This paper studies the efficiency of an econometric model where the volatility is modeled by a GARCH (1,1) process, and the innovations follow a standardized form of the Pearson type-IV distribution. The performance of the model is examined by in sample and out of sample testing, and the accuracy is explored by a variety of Value-at-Risk methods, the success/failure ratio, the Kupiec-LR test, the independence and conditional coverage tests of Christoffersen, the expected shortfall measures, and the dynamic quantile test of Engle and Manganelli. Overall, the proposed model is a valid and accurate model performing better than the skewed Student-t distribution, providing the financial analyst with a good candidate as an alternative distributional scheme.

Key words: Value-at-Risk, Econometric modeling, GARCH, Pearson type-IV distribution.
JEL: C01, C46, C5.

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Published

2013-10-10

How to Cite

Stavroyiannis, S., & Zarangas, L. (2013). Out of Sample Value-at-Risk and Backtesting with the Standardized Pearson Type-IV Skewed Distribution. Panoeconomicus, 60(2), 231–247. https://doi.org/10.2298/PAN1302231S