基于EVT-BM-FIGARCH的动态VaR风险测度

对金融资产回报,用FIGARCH模型捕捉波动的异方差性和长期记忆性的同时,将回报序列转化为标准残差序列、通过用EVT-BM方法拟合标准残差的尾部分布来处理回报序列的厚尾性,建立了金融风险度量模型--基于EVT-BM-FIGARCH的动态VaR模型。并用该模型对上证综合指数进行实证分析,结果表明模型能够更精确、合理地度量上证综合指数回报的VaR风险。     

基于EVT-POT-SV-MT模型的极值风险度量

针对金融资产收益的异常变化,采用SV-MT模型对风险资产的预期收益做风险补偿并捕捉收益序列的厚尾性、波动的异方差性等特征,将收益序列转化为标准残差序列,通过SV-MT模型与极值理论相结合拟合标准残差的尾部分布,建立了一种新的金融风险度量模型——基于EVT-POT-SV-MT的动态VaR模型.通过该模型对上证综指做实证分析,结果表明该模型能够合理有效地度量上证综指收益的风险.     

基于Copula-SV-GPD模型的投资组合风险度量

对于多元金融资产组合,针对资产收益的厚尾性、波动的异方差性及资产间的非线性相关结构等特征,采用SV-t模型与极值理论结合刻画单个资产收益的波动性及尾部分布特征,应用Copula函数处理多元资产间的相关性,并结合Monte Carlo模拟对投资组合进行风险测度.通过对华安创新基金的实证分析结果表明,基于SV-GPD的边缘分布模型能有效地刻画金融资产收益时序并较为精确地处理资产收益尾部的异常变化,相比其他风险度量模型具有更好的优越性,基于Copula-SV-GPD模型的多元资产组合对风险测度能力更强,能有效地管理投资风险.     

考虑收益率自相关特征的存货质押动态质押率设定

异于收益率弱相关的有效金融市场假说,以现货交易为主的质物市场收益率往往存在显著的自相关.从金融时间序列一般规律出发,分析质物市场收益率序列统计特征,以场外现货交易为主的螺纹钢日数据为例,模型化收益率序列自相关性和异方差性特性,建立尖峰厚尾分布下的AR(1)-GARCH(1,1)-GED模型；提出置于多风险窗口下度量未来质押期内钢材价格风险水平,给出同时考虑收益率自相关性和波动率时变性的长期风险VaR计算解析式,得出与银行风险承受能力相一致的质押率；基于失效率法则建立长期风险的碰撞序列函数,回测多风险窗口下长期VaR值.实证分析和回测显示,与现有其他模型相比,引进系数K值后的模型能显著提高银行风险覆盖率,且能显著降低银行效率损失,为银行提供一种动态质押率风险管理框架,模型确定的多风险窗口质押率与朱来螺纹钢最低价值呈显著正相关.     

厚尾分布情形下的信用资产组合风险度量

本文研究风险因子多元厚尾分布情形下的信用资产组合风险度量问题.用多元t-Copula分布来描述标的资产收益率分布的厚尾性,同时将三步重要抽样技术发展到基多元t-Copula分布的资产组合模型中,拓宽和丰富了信用资产组合风险度量模型.同时,并运用了非线性优化技术中的Levenberg-Marquardt算法来解决重要抽样技术中风险因子期望向量估计.模拟结果表明该算法比普通Monte Carlo模拟法的计算效率更有效,且能很大程度上减少所要估计的损失概率的方差,从而更精确地估计出信用投资组合损失分布的尾部概率或给定置信度下组合VaR值.     

双长记忆GARCH族模型的预测能力比较研究——基于沪深股市数据的实证分析

GARCH族模型在金融风险的度量中有着广泛的应用。在考虑股市收益率和波动率序列双长记忆性的基础上,基于上证综合指数和深圳成份指数的日收盘价序列,从证券投资风险量化的角度,引入受险值VaR和相对正确符号指标PCS作为模型预测误差衡量指标,比较分析了双长记忆GARCH族模型在不同分布假设情况下的的拟合与预测精度。结果显示:偏t分布能较好描述沪深股市的厚尾特征;在较小的VaR水平下ARFIMA(2,d₁,0)-FIAPARCH(1,d₂,1)-skt模型对股市波动风险具有较强的预测能力,而ARFIMA(2,d₁,0)-HYGARCH(1,d₂,1)-skt对股市的涨跌趋势具有较强的预测能力。     

引入无风险证券的均值——VaR投资组合模型研究

本文根据Markowitz均值-方差模型的研究发展过程,结合机会约束模型,引入无风险证券,建立了用VaR代替方差作为风险度量指标的机会约束下均值———VaR投资组合模型,讨论了模型最优解的存在性和唯一性,并得到了模型最优解的解析表达式。     

基于Asymmetric Laplace分布的金融风险度量

金融资产的损益分布具有明显尖峰肥尾和不对称等特征,本文采用非对称拉普拉斯分布来刻画这些风险特征,给出了市场风险VaR和CVaR度量的AL参数法和AL-MC法。选取上证指数、日经225指数及S&P500指数为研究对象,结合各股市的风险特征,给出了VaR和CVaR度量及其返回检验和准确性评价。结果表明,基于AL分布的风险度量模型具有其合理性和适用性,能很好地度量市场风险。     

基于CAViaR模型的沪深300股指期货隔夜风险研究

期货隔夜风险的防范历来是投资者关注的热点,本文以沪深300股指期货为研究对象,采用CAViaR模型对普通隔夜风险进行度量,同时还采用新建的CAViaR-EVT模型对极端隔夜风险进行预测,全面地分析了多头VaR和空头VaR在不同分位数的动态变化特征,最后采用Kupiec似然比检验和动态分位数检验对模型进行后测检验。实证结果表明,隔夜收益序列具有右偏、无长期记忆性和尖峰厚尾等典型特征;CAViaR模型对股指期货的普通隔夜风险具有优异的预测能力,其中AS模型的预测效果最好;加入极值理论后,CAViaR-EVT模型同样能很好地刻画极端分位数下隔夜风险的动态演化过程,且其预测结果比EVT和GARCH-EVT模型要更合理。     

基于混频数据模型的宏观经济对股票市场波动的长期动态影响研究

股票价格时间序列与宏观经济变量时间序列原始数据的不同频直接导致传统计量模型在处理宏观经济波动与股票市场波动的关系问题中产生模型误设和估计偏误。本文运用混频自回归条件异方差模型从水平值和波动率两个维度实证分析生产者价格指数、居民消费价格指数、宏观经济景气指数及同业拆借利率四个宏观经济变量对股票市场波动的长期动态影响。同时,运用主成分分析提取宏观经济第一主成分并构建一个宏观经济综合指数,进一步探究宏观经济总体状况对股票市场波动的长期影响。研究发现:股票市场已实现波动率显著地放大了股票市场的长期波动。生产者价格指数、居民消费价格指数、宏观经济景气指数的水平值和波动率均对股票市场长期波动产生显著影响;且其波动率维度呈现出较强的持续效应;同业拆借利率仅在水平值维度对股票市场波动长期成分产生微弱影响。宏观经济第一主成分和宏观综合指数的波动率对股票市场波动长期成分均具有显著的正向放大作用,但持续效应较弱;而其水平值对股票市场波动长期成分的影响虽然微弱,但持续时间较长。     

Introduction to Special Section on Sensitivity Analysis and Summary of NCSU/USDA Workshop on Sensitivity Analysis

This guest editorial is a summary of the NCSU/USDA Workshop on Sensitivity Analysis held June 11–12, 2001 at North Carolina State University and sponsored by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Office of Risk Assessment and Cost Benefit Analysis. The objective of the workshop was to learn across disciplines in identifying, evaluating, and recommending sensitivity analysis methods and practices for application to food‐safety process risk models. The workshop included presentations regarding the Hazard Assessment and Critical Control Points (HACCP) framework used in food‐safety risk assessment, a survey of sensitivity analysis methods, invited white papers on sensitivity analysis, and invited case studies regarding risk assessment of microbial pathogens in food. Based on the sharing of interdisciplinary information represented by the presentations, the workshop participants, divided into breakout sessions, responded to three trigger questions: What are the key criteria for sensitivity analysis methods applied to food‐safety risk assessment? What sensitivity analysis methods are most promising for application to food safety and risk assessment? and What are the key needs for implementation and demonstration of such methods? The workshop produced agreement regarding key criteria for sensitivity analysis methods and the need to use two or more methods to try to obtain robust insights. Recommendations were made regarding a guideline document to assist practitioners in selecting, applying, interpreting, and reporting the results of sensitivity analysis.     

Distinguishing traumatic, vicarious and routine operational stressor exposure and attendant adverse consequences in a sample of police officers

Problems in studying occupational stress within the police service are identified and the paucity of work on operational duties as potential stressors are discussed. The present study reports the results of a factor analysis of operational stressors (N = 601 serving British police officers) that revealed three factors: exposure to death and disaster; violence and injury; sexual crime. These were demonstrated to be reliable scales and were included in logistic regression models together with a range of demographic and psychological variables. Models were applied to men and women separately, which showed there to be different predictors of the likelihood of suffering distress (measured by the General Health Questionnaire, GHQ) in terms of the officer's gender and operational role. Overall the model for women officers was better at predicting psychological distress than that for men. These findings are related to aspects of the police occupational culture. Further discussion is offered that conceptualizes police operational stressors as traumatic, routine and vicarious. Finally, some implications are drawn for the provision of stress intervention in the light of this differentiation.     

Criteria for selecting a production control philosophy

Logistic objectives constitute a compromise between having short leadtimes and a low volume of work in progress on the one hand and a high resource loading and due date obligation on the other. Miscellaneous production planning approaches offered today provide different combinations of logistic objectives for satisfying a manufacturing strategy. To combine the strength of the various approaches into a unified system, a new approach based on a dynamic and distributed production planning methodology is proposed. To customize the approach, various analyses and specifications have to be made and for that reason some important characteristics and criteria for analysing production control philosophies will be given.     

The social construction of the meaning of acute stressors: a qualitative study of the personal accounts of police officers using a stress counselling service

The police profession is one in which acute stressors are encountered more frequently than in other occupations. Using the personal accounts of 35 police officers attending an in-house stress counselling clinic, the aim of the present study was to provide a qualitative examination of how the institutional context of policing influenced the ways in which acute stressors signified to individual police officers experiencing felt distress. Using the framework of Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy as an analytical tool, it is argued that beliefs contributing to the experience of felt distress are related to the way in which policing as both an identity and an activity is constructed through the police organizational culture. Not only do these constructions influence the ways in which officers perceive themselves and their environments, but they also operate at the collective level to 'normalize' some emotional responses and to 'pathologize' others which, it is argued, could impact upon the outcomes of interventions such as stress counselling.     

The moderating role of social support in Karasek's job strain model

This paper examines whether social support is a boundary-determining criterion in the job strain model of Karasek (1979). The particular focus is the extent to which different sources of social support, work overload and task control influence job satisfaction, depersonalization and supervisor assessments of work performance. Hypotheses are tested using prospective survey data from 80 clerical staff in a university setting. Results revealed 3-way interactions among levels of support (supervisor, co-worker, non-work), perceived task control and work overload on levels of work performance and employee adjustment (self-report). After controlling for levels of negative affect in all analyses, there was evidence that high levels of supervisor support mitigated against the negative effects of high strain jobs on levels of job satisfaction and reduced reported levels of depersonalization. Moreover, high levels of non-work support and co-worker support also mitigated against the negative effects of high strain jobs on levels of work performance. The results are discussed in terms of the importance of social support networks both at, and beyond, the work context.     

Job insecurity, coping resources and personality dispositions in occupational strain

This paper presents research on the relationships between the work-related stressor of perceived job insecurity and various indicators of occupational strain, taking into account employees' personality dispositions (trait negative and positive affectivity) and coping resources. Respondents were 222 Australian public servants surveyed during organizational restructuring that involved downsizing and threat to job certainty. The research was formulated within an adaptation of Osipow, Doty, and Spokane's (1985) framework of stress-strain-coping that included the possible direct as well as moderating effects of personality dispositions in reporting occupational strain (Parkes, 1990). Findings from hierarchical regression analyses indicate consistent significant independent effects of personality dispositions, coping resources and perceived job insecurity on various indicators of strain. There was also support for the moderating roles of negative affectivity and self-care in the relation between perceived job insecurity and physical strain. Implications for the role of dispositional factors, especially negative affectivity, and the utility of various coping resources in accounting for occupational strain in times of threatened job security are discussed.     

Job stress, job strain, and psychological withdrawal among Dutch university staff: towards a dualprocess model for the effects of occupational stress

This study examined the antecedents of job strain (emotional exhaustion, health complaints) and withdrawal behaviour (e.g. lowered organizational commitment) among a cross-sectional sample of 131 academic staff members of the law department of a large Dutch university. Conservation of resources theory (Hobfoll, 1989) provided the theoretical background for this study. Strains and withdrawal behaviours were expected to be most prominent among those who reported having few resources and/or who reported high job demands. Structural equation modelling revealed that this was indeed the case. As predicted, differential patterns of effects emerged for job demands and job resources. Analysis of the effects of four job-specific stressors revealed that especially the structural aspects of a staff member's teaching task (e.g. the number of students in their classes) contributed strongly to perceived job demands. Theoretical and practical implications of the study are discussed.     

Dermal Uptake of 18 Dilute Aqueous Chemicals: In Vivo Disappearance‐Method Measures Greatly Exceed In Vitro‐Based Predictions

Average rates of total dermal uptake (K_up) from short‐term (e.g., bathing) contact with dilute aqueous organic chemicals (DAOCs) are typically estimated from steady‐state in vitro diffusion‐cell measures of chemical permeability (K_p) through skin into receptor solution. Widely used (“PCR‐vitro”) methods estimate K_up by applying diffusion theory to increase K_p predictions made by a physico‐chemical regression (PCR) model that was fit to a large set of K_p measures. Here, K_up predictions for 18 DAOCs made by three PCR‐vitro models (EPA, NIOSH, and MH) were compared to previous in vivo measures obtained by methods unlikely to underestimate K_up. A new PCR model fit to all 18 measures is accurate to within approximately threefold (r = 0.91, p < 10^?5), but the PCR‐vitro predictions (r > 0.63) all tend to underestimate the K_up measures by mean factors (UF, and p value for testing UF = 1) of 10 (EPA, p < 10^?6), 11 (NIOSH, p < 10^?8), and 6.2 (MH, p = 0.018). For all three PCR‐vitro models, log(UF) correlates negatively with molecular weight (r² = 0.31 to 0.84, p = 0.017 to < 10^?6) but not with log(vapor pressure) as an additional predictor (p > 0.05), so vapor pressure appears not to explain the significant in vivo/PCR‐vitro discrepancy. Until this discrepancy is explained, careful in vivo measures of K_up should be obtained for more chemicals, the expanded in vivo database should be compared to in vitro‐based predictions, and in vivo data should be considered in assessing aqueous dermal exposure and its uncertainty.     

Systems Resilience for Multihazard Environments: Definition,Metrics, and Valuation for Decision Making

The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction reported that the 2011 natural disasters, including the earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan, resulted in $366 billion in direct damages and 29,782 fatalities worldwide. Storms and floods accounted for up to 70% of the 302 natural disasters worldwide in 2011, with earthquakes producing the greatest number of fatalities. Average annual losses in the United States amount to about $55 billion. Enhancing community and system resilience could lead to massive savings through risk reduction and expeditious recovery. The rational management of such reduction and recovery is facilitated by an appropriate definition of resilience and associated metrics. In this article, a resilience definition is provided that meets a set of requirements with clear relationships to the metrics of the relevant abstract notions of reliability and risk. Those metrics also meet logically consistent requirements drawn from measure theory, and provide a sound basis for the development of effective decision‐making tools for multihazard environments. Improving the resiliency of a system to meet target levels requires the examination of system enhancement alternatives in economic terms, within a decision‐making framework. Relevant decision analysis methods would typically require the examination of resilience based on its valuation by society at large. The article provides methods for valuation and benefit‐cost analysis based on concepts from risk analysis and management.     

Employees' perceptions of organizational restructuring: the role of social support

Organizational change and restructuring is often perceived as leading to increased occupational stress, impacting negatively on the psychological well-being of employees. This pragmatic study investigates the role of social support and dispositional affect as moderators of role stress post-restructuring for employees in a public utility company. A total of 176 employees, including 37 managers, 60 graded staff and 78 industrial staff completed a self-report questionnaire, approximately 1 year postrestructuring, retrospectively assessing role conflict, ambiguity, overload and positive and negative feedback pre- and post-restructuring. Results suggested that overall role stress increased for managers/ senior officers and graded staff, but not for industrial staff. Social support was linked with lower role stress, more positive feedback and less negative feedback at post-restructuring. For certain role stressors this impact was moderated by dispositional affect, but the effect was not consistent across occupational groups. Positive affect enhanced the effect of manager support in reducing role conflict for graded staff, and the effect of co-worker support in increasing positive feedback and reducing negative feedback for industrial staff. Findings suggest that managers should pay particular attention to support and feedback for employees during periods of chronic occupational stress following organizational restructuring.