Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/232602 
Year of Publication: 
2020
Series/Report no.: 
Sveriges Riksbank Working Paper Series No. 399
Publisher: 
Sveriges Riksbank, Stockholm
Abstract: 
We propose a dynamic semi-parametric framework to study time variation in tail parameters. The framework builds on the Generalized Pareto Distribution (GPD) for modeling peaks over thresholds as in Extreme Value Theory, but casts the model in a conditional framework to allow for time-variation in the tail shape parameters. The score-driven updates used improve the expected Kullback-Leibler divergence between the model and the true data generating process on every step even if the GPD only fits approximately and the model is mis-specified, as will be the case in any finite sample. This is confirmed in simulations. Using the model, we find that Eurosystem sovereign bond purchases during the euro area sovereign debt crisis had a beneficial impact on extreme upper tail quantiles, leaning against the risk of extremely adverse market outcomes while active.
Subjects: 
dynamic tail risk
observation-driven models
extreme value theory
European Central Bank (ECB)
Securities Markets Programme (SMP)
JEL: 
C22
G11
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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