• Media type: E-Book
  • Title: Stressing Correlations and Volatilities – A Consistent Modeling Approach
  • Contributor: Becker, Christoph [Author]; Schmidt, Wolfgang M. [Other]
  • imprint: [S.l.]: SSRN, [2011]
  • Extent: 1 Online-Ressource (29 p)
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.1928975
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  • Footnote: Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments September 16, 2011 erstellt
  • Description: We propose a new approach to the definition of stress scenarios for volatilities and correlations. Correlations and volatilities depend on a common market factor, which is the key to stressing them in a consistent and intuitive way. Our approach is based on a new asset price model where correlations and volatilities depend on the current state of the market, which captures market-wide movements in equity-prices. For sample portfolios we compare correlations and volatilities in a normal market and under stress and explore consequences for value-at-risk.We compare our modeling approach with multivariate GARCH models. For all data analyzed our model performs well in capturing the dynamics of volatilities and correlations
  • Access State: Open Access