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Market risks are the prospect of financial losses – or gains – due to unexpected changes in market prices and rates. Evaluating the exposure to such risks is nowadays of primary concern to risk managers in financial and non-financial institutions alike. Since the early 1990s a commonly used market risk estimation methodology has been the Value at Risk (VaR).
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Misiorek, A., Weron, R. (2012). Heavy-Tailed Distributions in VaR Calculations. In: Gentle, J., Härdle, W., Mori, Y. (eds) Handbook of Computational Statistics. Springer Handbooks of Computational Statistics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21551-3_34
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