Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/64788 
Year of Publication: 
2012
Series/Report no.: 
cemmap working paper No. CWP25/12
Publisher: 
Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice (cemmap), London
Abstract: 
This paper proposes efficient estimators of risk measures in a semiparametric GARCH model defined through moment constraints. Moment constraints are often used to identify and estimate the mean and variance parameters and are however discarded when estimating error quantiles. In order to prevent this efficiency loss in quantile estimation, we propose a quantile estimator based on inverting an empirical likelihood weighted distribution estimator. It is found that the new quantile estimator is uniformly more efficient than the simple empirical quantile and a quantile estimator based on normalized residuals. At the same time, the efficiency gain in error quantile estimation hinges on the efficiency of estimators of the variance parameters. We show that the same conclusion applies to the estimation of conditional Expected Shortfall. Our comparison also leads to interesting implications of residual bootstrap for dynamic models. We find that these proposed estimators for conditional Value-at-Risk and expected shortfall are asymptotically mixed normal. This asymptotic theory can be used to construct confidence bands for these estimators by taking account of parameter uncertainty. Simulation evidence as well as empirical results are provided.
Subjects: 
Empirical Likelihood
Empirical process
GARCH
Quantile
Value-at-Risk
Expected Shortfall
JEL: 
C14
C22
G22
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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