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Confidence intervals (cont.)

moving averages, 126-8

prediction, 444

realized volatility, 133 Constant absolute risk aversion (CARA), 196

Constant correlation,

estimates, 108

models, 14-17 Constant relative risk aversion (CRRA),

196, 197 Constant volatility,

ATM volatility, 37

Black-Scholes model, 21, 24, 26, 30, 34, 61

geometric Brownian motion (GBM), 117

historic volatility, 120

implied volatility, 22

likelihood functions, 122

models, 12, 13, 18, 21, 22

square root of time rule, 61

unconditional volatility, 12

underlying asset price process, 22

volatility term structures, 61, 99 Convergence,

BEKK model, 217

bivariate GARCH, 108, 109

multivariate GARCH, 109, 115

orthogonal GARCH, 217

univariate GARCH, 73, 75, 84, 96, 97-8, 108, 109

volatility term structures, 12, 75, 76, 97-8, 102-3 Copulas,

co-dependency, 8

financial risk management, 9

multivariate distributions, 8 Correlation,

apparent stability, 16

basic concept, 3-4

co-dependency, 7, 8

co-movements, 5, 6

conditional, 16-17

constant see Constant correlation

cross-market, 15-16, 18

exponentially weighted moving average (EWMA), 55, 76, 111

financial markets, 8, 10, 11, 12, 111

GARCH constant, 115

historical see Historic correlation

implied, 45

joint density, 5, 15

long-term, 57

ordinary least squares (OLS), 7 orthogonality, 7

portfolio diversification, 186-7

positive/negative, 6, 8

principal component analysis (PCA), 143

quanto correlation, 46-7

scatter plots, 8

statistical nature, 5-9

time horizons, 18

time-varying see Time-varying correlation

unconditional see Unconditional correlation Correlation estimates, 11, 15-16, 18, 19, 50

artefact of method, 56

BEKK model, 109, 110

bivariate GARCH, 109, 110, 205

conditional correlation, 16-17

constant correlation, 108

cross market, 15-16

multivariate GARCH, 205

orthogonal GARCH, 109, 110

time-varying, 15, 107 Correlation forecasts,

uncertainty, 137-8

underlying correlation, 117 Correlation matrices,

eigenvalues, 149, 152, 153, 154, 159

eigenvectors, 149, 152, 153, 154, 159

simple cash portfolios, 262

time-varying, 115 Correlation risk, hedging, 138 Correlation term structures, GARCH

models, 109 Correlogam, 333-5 Counter-monotonic dependency, 8 Covariance,

capital asset pricing model (CAPM), 109

co-movements, 6-7 stationary, 14-15

unconditional see Unconditional covariance

VaR (value-at-risk) models, 237, 250 Covariance forecasts, 50, 109 Covariance matrices,

applications, 180-201

capital asset pricing model (CAPM), 115, 238

Cholesky decomposition, 182, 1831 diagonal, 141, 144, 146, 206 exponentially weighted moving average

(EWMA), 180, 184, 204, 206-10 large dimensions, 108, 112 linear portfolios, 180-2 meaning, 179

minimum variance portfolios, 187-92 orthogonality, 144, 180, 204-27



portfolio risk, 179

positive semi-definiteness, 116, 179,

180, 181, 206, 211 RiskMetrics data, 201-4 simplifying assumptions, 179 splicing methods, 220-1, 227 stress testing, 184-5 time-varying, 114-16 Covariance VaR models,

advantages/limitations, 266-7 aggregation, 266 assumptions, 260-1 cash-flow maps, 263-5 factor models, 262-3 fat tails, 285

normal mixture distributions, 302-3

RiskMetrics data, 260

simple cash portfolios, 261-2 Credit risk capital requirement (CRR),

252, 255 Crude oil,

futures, 55, 60, 153, 154, 212, 213

GARCH parameters, 77, 85 Currency markets,

cointegration, 366

components GARCH, 79

conditional correlation, 16, 17

conditional volatility, 97

convergence, 102

correlation estimates, 16, 17

DEM, 102, 129-32, 349

excess kurtosis, 82, 301

exchange rates, random walk, 75

GBP, 16, 17, 102, 132-3

high frequency data, 97

I-GARCH, 76

implied correlation, 45-7

JPY, 16, 17, 102, 129-32

market events, 102

mean-reverting volatility, 75

NLG, 349

parameter estimates, 101-2 quanto correlation, 46-7 symmetric smiles, 30 time-varying correlation, 15 USD. 16. 17, 101-2, 129-33 volatility clustering, 65, 97 volatility term structures, 102

Data problems. see also Missing data data errors. 437-9 dummy variables. 440-2 multicollinearity, 144, 1721. 436-7 principal component analysis (PCA), 18, 144, 171-8

DAX 30: 85, 89, 155, 217, 297, 363, 364 Delta,

Black-Scholes, 32, 44

calculation, 44, 105

chain rule, 44

constant absolute risk aversion

(CARA), 196 delta-gamma approximations, 2734 finite difference approximations, 105 hedging, 43-5, 119, 138, 139 neutrality, 43, 44 price sensitivity, 34, 43 property, 196 sticky delta, 35, 37 Density,

non-normal density function, 451-2 normal density function, 449-50 price/volatility, 41, 42, 43 Derivatives portfolios,

correlated risk factor movements, 182-3

Monte Carlo simulation, 182 DFP algorithm, 95 Dickey-Fuller (DF) test, 325-8 Dispersion, 4, 119 Dow Jones 30, 231 Durbin-Hausmann test, 328 Durbin-Watson test, 431 Dynamic hedging, 138-0

E-GARCH, 79-80 Efficient frontier,

capital allocation, 190

frontier analysis, 186, 191

mean-variance analysis, 201

minimum variance portfolios, 191

optimal portfolios, 199, 200

risk aversion, 197 Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors

negative values, 184

orthogonal GARCH, 215, 217

principal component analysis (PCA), 145, 146, 147, 149, 152, 153, 154, 159

Energy markets, crude oil, 55, 60, 77, 85, 153, 154, 212. 213

historic correlation, 54-7

natural gas futures, 54, 55, 111. 326 Engle-Granger methodology, 353, 354-7.

360-1, 368 Equity markets,

asymmetric distribution, 31

Australia, 90, 91

Brazil, 90

cointegration, 368-9



Equity markets {com.)

convergence, 102

economic doom and gloom, 31

Hong Kong, 90

I-GARCH, 76

implied correlation, 45-7

index returns, beta, 181

jumpy markets, 35, 36, 37-8, 44

large price fall, 31, 99

leverage effect, 31, 68-9, 79

quanto correlation, 46-7

range-bounded markets, 36, 44

Singapore, 90

skew. 30-1, 155

South Africa, 90, 91

Taiwan, 90, 91

time-varying correlation, 15

trending markets, 36, 37, 44

USA see United States

volatility clustering, 65

volatility regimes, 34-8

volatility term structures. 101-3 Error,

data errors, 437-9

error distributions, 82

forecast error, 123

GARCH error coefficients, 73

mean absolute error, 445

mean square error, 445

RMSE see Root mean square error

samples see Sampling error

standard see Standard error Error correction model (ECM),

cointegration, 347, 355, 362-6

price discovery, 367

spread options, 367 Estima, 80 EVIEWS, 84 Excess kurtosis,

currency markets, 82, 301

intra-day returns, 285

non-normal returns, 286-7, 309-11

non-normal symmetric GARCH, 73

normal GARCH models, 82

option pricing, 306

single outliers, 67

volatility clustering, 66, 67 Exponential GARCH see E-GARCH Exponentially weighted moving average (EWMA),

accuracy, 119

beta, 111, 167, 239

combined forecasts, 129-32

correlation, 55, 76, 111

covariance matrices, 180, 184, 204, 206-10

efficient frontier, 187 historic correlation, 55, 76 I-GARCH, 60, 76, 111 limitations, 111 look-back periods, 58 orthogonality, 204, 206-10, 212-14 persistence, 59, 207 positive semi-definiteness, 184 reaction, 59, 207

RiskMetrics data, 60, 115, 163, 179,

202, 203 sampling error, 111

smoothing constant. 115, 117, 163, 202,

203, 204, 217 squared returns, 57-8, 207 statistical volatility, 125 variance estimates, 127, 163 volatility estimates, 57-8, 60 volatility forecasts, 60, 119

Factor GARCH models, volatility, 115 Factor models,

see also Multi-factor models

Bayesian estimation, 242-5

CAPM see Capital asset pricing model

cash-flow maps, 262

covariance VaR models, 262-3

decomposing risk, 230-6

factor sensitivities, 229, 23916

instrumental variables, 247

linear portfolios, 181, 187. 229

linear regression, 172

portfolio risk, 237

risk factors, 229

risk measurement, 22948

sources of risk, 232

specification procedures, 246-8

statistical, 235-6

tracking models, 229 Fat tails,

see also Leptokurtic distributions

covariance VaR models, 285

financial data, 82

GARCH models, 125

QQ plots, 288-90

return distributions, 30, 82, 125 Financial asset prices,

random variables, 4

stochastic processes, 1, 3 Financial asset returns,

log prices, 4

stochastic volatility, 285 Financial markets,

ARCH, 71

autocorrelation, 63

Black Monday, 52-3, 57, 85, 185



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