Measuring Tail Risk

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Translated title of the contributionMessung des Tail-Risikos
Original languageEnglish
Article number105769
Number of pages24
JournalJournal of Econometrics
Volume241
Issue number2
Publication statusPublished - Apr 2024

Abstract

We comprehensively investigate the usefulness of tail risk measures proposed in the literature. We evaluate their statistical as well as their economic validity. The option-implied measure of Bollerslev and Todorov (2011b) () performs best overall. While some other tail risk measures excel at specialized tasks, performs well in all tests: First, can predict both future tail events and future tail volatility. Second, it has predictive power for returns in both the time series and the cross-section, as well as for real economic activity. Finally, a simulation analysis shows that the main driver of performance is measurement error.

Keywords

    Return forecasting, Tail event forecasting, Tail risk, option implied, Tail events, Tail volatility

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Measuring Tail Risk. / Dierkes, Maik; Hollstein, Fabian; Prokopczuk, Marcel et al.
In: Journal of Econometrics, Vol. 241, No. 2, 105769, 04.2024.

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Dierkes M, Hollstein F, Prokopczuk M, Würsig CM. Measuring Tail Risk. Journal of Econometrics. 2024 Apr;241(2):105769. doi: 10.1016/j.jeconom.2024.105769, 10.2139/ssrn.3789005
Dierkes, Maik ; Hollstein, Fabian ; Prokopczuk, Marcel et al. / Measuring Tail Risk. In: Journal of Econometrics. 2024 ; Vol. 241, No. 2.
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