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Estimating Value-at-Risk for the g-and-h distribution: an indirect inference approach

  • M. Bee*
  • , J. Hambuckers
  • , Luca Trapin
  • *Corresponding author
  • University of Trento
  • University of Göttingen
  • University of Liege

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Abstract

The g-and-h distribution is able to handle well the complex behavior of loss data and applied to operational losses suggests that indirect inference estimators of VaR outperform quantile-based estimators.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1255-1266
Number of pages12
JournalQuantitative Finance
Volume19
Issue number8
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2019

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Finance
  • General Economics,Econometrics and Finance

Keywords

  • Value-at-Risk
  • g-and-h distribution
  • indirect inference
  • loss model

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