The Ten Commandments for Managing Value-at-Risk Under the Basel II Accord

Under the Basel II Accord, banks and other Authorized Deposit-taking Institutions (ADIs) are required to communicate their daily market risk estimates to the relevant national monetary authority at the beginning of each trading day, using one of a variety of Value-at-Risk (VaR) models to measure ris...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: Jiménez Martín, Juan Ángel, McAleer, Michael, Pérez Amaral, Teodosio
Tipo de recurso: informe técnico
Fecha de publicación:2009
País:España
Institución:Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)
Repositorio:Docta Complutense
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:docta.ucm.es:20.500.14352/49259
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/49259
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:G32
G11
G17
Financial portfolios
Daily capital Charges
Frequency of violations
Magnitude of violations
Optimizing strategy
Risk forecasts
Value-at-risk
Green zone
Red zone.
Finanzas
Contabilidad (Economía)
5303 Contabilidad Económica
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Sumario:Under the Basel II Accord, banks and other Authorized Deposit-taking Institutions (ADIs) are required to communicate their daily market risk estimates to the relevant national monetary authority at the beginning of each trading day, using one of a variety of Value-at-Risk (VaR) models to measure risk. The purpose of this paper is to provide a simple explanation and a set of prescriptions for managing VaR under the Basel II Accord. The commandments deal with understanding the Basel II colours, understanding the risk model before choosing, varying the choice of risk model,avoiding the green zone and being willing to violate, incurring large violations, stopping before the red zone, avoiding frequent violations, avoiding the estimation of large portfolios, aggregating portfolios into a single index, and interpreting commandments sensibly as guidelines.