基于MCMC的风险贡献估计

Estimation of risk contributions with MCMC

Quantitative Finance · 2019
被引 19
ABS 3

中文导读

提出一种基于马尔可夫链蒙特卡洛(MCMC)的VaR贡献估计方法,通过从条件损失分布中抽样提高样本效率,适用于高维风险模型,数值实验显示偏差和均方误差更小。

Abstract

Determining risk contributions of unit exposures to portfolio-wide economic capital is an important task in financial risk management. Computing risk contributions involves difficulties caused by rare-event simulations. In this study, we address the problem of estimating risk contributions when the total risk is measured by value-at-risk (VaR). Our proposed estimator of VaR contributions is based on the Metropolis-Hasting (MH) algorithm, which is one of the most prevalent Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods. Unlike existing estimators, our MH-based estimator consists of samples from the conditional loss distribution given a rare event of interest. This feature enhances sample efficiency compared with the crude Monte Carlo method. Moreover, our method has consistency and asymptotic normality, and is widely applicable to various risk models having a joint loss density. Our numerical experiments based on simulation and real-world data demonstrate that in various risk models, even those having high-dimensional (≈500) inhomogeneous margins, our MH estimator has smaller bias and mean squared error when compared with existing estimators.

风险管理金融计量蒙特卡洛方法风险价值