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Abstract
The present study aimed at evaluating the predictive ability of the models of market risk estimation in times of financial crises. To this end, models were tested to estimate the financial indicator Value-at-Risk (VaR) applied to the daily returns of the BM&FBovespa, the Ibovespa index. Traditional models and those based on the Extreme Value Theory (EVT), considered as two types of distribution, the Generalized Extreme Value (GEV) and generalized Pareto distribution (GPD) were tested. The data relating to two periods of international financial crises termed the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis and the U.S. Subprime Meltdown in 2008 were explored in the study. The results indicated the inefficiency of most statistical models for VaR estimation in moments of high volatility for both periods of crisis. In contrast, the exception refers to the model based on EVT, GPD distribution that proved satisfactory in the estimates in both periods of crisis. The results are in agreement with other studies in the field.
Key words: Value-at-risk, IBovespa, Extreme Value Theory (EVT).
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