Fat-Tailed Models for Risk Estimation
Risk models are employed in financial modeling to provide a measure of risk that could be employed in portfolio construction, risk management, and derivatives pricing. A risk model is typically a combination of a probability distribution model and a risk measure. In this entry, we discuss alternatives for building the probability distribution model, as well as the pros and cons of various heavy-tailed distributional choices. Our ...
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