中国燃油期货市场的VaR与ES风险度量

近年来,我国燃油期货市场取得快速发展,但有关该市场波动特征和风险状况的研究却非常缺乏。以上海期货交易所燃油期货价格指数为例,分别在多头和空头两种头寸状况以及5种不同分位数水平下,运用条件覆盖检验、非条件覆盖检验等后验分析方法,实证对比了不同风险测度模型对VaR和ES两种不同风险指标估计的精度差异。研究结果表明:在我国燃油期货市场的风险测度估计中考虑国际燃油价格波动因素有助于获得更为精准的风险测度精度;在综合考虑了模型对价格变化动力学的刻画效果以及对极端风险的测度精度等因素后,FIGARCH_CST-SST模型是一个相对合理的风险测度模型选择。     

基于MRS-GARCH的钢铁期货市场VaR风险测度

针对中国钢铁期货市场波动率具有结构突变特征,使用MRS-GARCH模型对其波动率建模,并通过马尔科夫蒙特卡罗方法(MCMC方法)对模型参数进行估计,进而对钢铁期货市场进行VaR风险测度。结果表明:基于MCMC估计方法 MRS-GARCH模型能够准确地刻画出钢铁期货市场波动率;MRS(3)-GARCH模型下VaR方法能够有效地测度钢铁期货市场风险。     

典型事实约束下的上海燃油期货市场动态VaR测度研究

期货交易的高杠杆率意味着期货市场的高风险特征,而能源市场因其特殊的战略意义一直以来备受关注,因而对能源期货市场的风险测度对投资者和监管者都极其重要。本文对上海燃油期货构建了四个反映不同交割期限的连续价格序列,基于不同的金融市场典型事实分别运用GARCH、GJR、FIGARCH三个模型对波动率建模,并假设条件收益分别服从正态、学生t、有偏学生t(skst)分布进行动态风险价值(VaR)测度,然后运用严格的似然比(LR)检验和动态分位数回归(DQR)检验对风险测度的可靠性进行后验分析(Backtesting),尝试从中提取出在风险管理中最有应用价值的典型事实。研究发现:(1)基于skst分布的波动模型的动态风险测度准确性明显优于其他分布下的相同模型;(2)基于杠杆效应的GJR模型和基于长记忆性的FIGARCH模型并没有表现出比普通GARCH模型更高的精度;(3)远期合约的市场平均收益更高,风险测度比近期合约更准确。     

基于时变高阶矩波动模型的VaR与ES度量

金融波动性建模经历了从常数高阶矩到时变高阶矩的发展历程.文章扩展了现有的针对时变高阶矩波动模型风险测度效果的研究:首先,以沪深300指数和其它世界股市若干重要指数为例,通过采用“从简单模型到复杂模型”的估计步骤,实现对时变高阶矩波动模型的估计,进而运用Gram-Charlier扩展分布获得对VaR(value-at-risk)和ES(excepted shortfall)两种不同风险测度的计算值;然后,分别利用非条件覆盖检验(unconditional coverage test)和基于自举法(Bootstrap)的后验分析方法,实证对比了时变高阶矩和常数高阶矩两类模型的适用范围和精确程度.研究结果表明:就所考察的若干指数样本而言,时变高阶矩模型不仅能够较好地刻画金融价格波动的整体动力学特征,并且总体来讲,在市场风险测度准确性方面也要优于常数高阶矩波动模型.     

基于时变高阶矩波动模型的 VaR 与 ES 度量

金融波动性建模经历了从常数高阶矩到时变高阶矩的发展历程． 文章扩展了现有的针对时变高阶矩波动模型风险测度效果的研究: 首先,以沪深 300 指数和其它世界股市若干重要指数为例,通过采用“从简单模型到复杂模型”的估计步骤,实现对时变高阶矩波动模型的估计,进而运用 Gram-Charlier 扩展分布获得对 VaR( value-at-risk) 和 ES( excepted shortfall) 两种不同风险测度的计算值; 然后,分别利用非条件覆盖检验( unconditional coverage test) 和基于自举法( Bootstrap) 的后验分析方法,实证对比了时变高阶矩和常数高阶矩两类模型的适用范围和精确程度．研究结果表明: 就所考察的若干指数样本而言,时变高阶矩模型不仅能够较好地刻画金融价格波动的整体动力学特征,并且总体来讲,在市场风险测度准确性方面也要优于常数高阶矩波动模型．     

基于Skew-t-FIAPARCH的金融市场动态风险VaR测度研究

本文引入FIAPARCH模型刻画金融价格条件波动率特征,引入有偏学生t分布捕获收益率有偏特征,并以此来测度金融市场动态风险VaR;进而运用返回测试和动态分位数回归方法对风险测度模型准确性进行实证检验.结果表明,RiskMetrics和GARCH-N测度金融市场的风险的可靠性差;有偏学生t分布比正态分布、学生t分布更能准确反应金融收益分布实际特征,具有更高的风险测度能力;FIAPARCH-SKST展示出比其它模型具有绝对优越的风险测度效果.     

金融资产收益非对称性的多标度分形测度及其在VaR计算中的应用

通过提炼多标度分形分析过程中所产生的对描述金融资产收益非对称特征有益的统计信息,提出了一种新的资产收益非对称测度--多标度分形非对称测度(Multifractal asymmetry measurement)Δf,并以沪深300指数长达7年左右的5分钟高频数据为实证样本,通过两种不同的VaR后验分析(Backtesting analysis)方法,实证对比了Δf测度和传统的偏度系数(Coefficient of skewness)测度在市场风险计算准确性方面的差异。实证结果表明:基于Δf测度的市场风险计算模型的VaR计算精度优于基于偏度系数测度的对应模型,Δf测度具有较偏度系数测度更为优异的对金融资产收益非对称特征的刻画能力。     

基于M-Copula-GJR-VaR模型的黄金市场最优套期保值比率研究

基于VaR的风险测度方法既侧重收益的负向波动风险,又可通过置信水平的设定满足有不同风险偏好的投资者的需求.以具有金融和商品双重属性的黄金为实证对象,充分考虑现货和期货市场的非对称性、两者之间的协整关系以及非线性相关的特征,以风险最小化为原则,建立M-Copula-GJR-VaR动态套期保值比率估计模型.采用中国市场现货价格和期货价格数据,对比分析M-Copula-GJR-VaR模型与CCC-GARCH-VaR模型、DCC-GARCH-VaR模型、Clayton Copula-GJR-VaR模型和Gumbel Copula-GJR-VaR模型的套期保值比率和套期保值效果.研究结果表明,经过4年多的发展,套期保值效率处于0.672～0.704之间的中国黄金期货市场还不成熟,套期保值功能的发挥有待提高;采用M-Copula-GJR-VaR模型估计的套期保值比率最优且套期保值效果最好,应用该模型进行黄金市场套期保值操作,可达到以相对较少的套期保值成本较大程度地规避现货市场价格风险的目的.     

我国期货市场波动性的非对称效应实证研究

波动的非对称性一直是金融市场波动性研究的一个重要方面.首先采用无条件波动度量方法对我国三大货市场四个主要品种1997年-2005年的波动性进行了估计,发现三大期货市场波动性呈现明显的阶段性和非对称性特征;然后根据无条件波动估计结果,对总样本进行了阶段性划分,进一步采用条件波动EGARCH模型对期货市场总体和两个不同阶段波动性的非对称效应进行了研究,结果发现小麦期货市场总体具有显著的非对称效应,而大豆、铜、铝期货市场总体不具显著的非对称效应,但分阶段后则呈现显著的非对称效应,并且两个阶段波动的非对称效应相反.     

基于多分形理论的动态VaR预测模型研究

经济物理学(econophysics)的大量研究表明,金融市场的波动具有复杂的多分形(multifractal)特征,因此准确地测度和预测市场波动,对金融风险管理工作的意义重大。在已有多分形波动率(multifractal volatility)测度及其模型应用基础上,以上证综指10年的高频数据为对象,提出了基于多分形波动率的样本外动态风险价值(out-of-sample dynamic VaR)预测法。通过两种规范的后验分析(backtesting)结果表明,与8种主流的线性和非线性GARCH族模型相比,在高风险水平上,基于多分形波动率测度的VaR模型明显具有更高的样本外动态风险预测精度。     

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.     

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.     

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 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.     

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.     

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.     

Control at work: a generalized resource factor for the prevention of musculoskeletal symptoms?

During the last two decades two potent groups of predictors for work-related musculoskeletal problems have been identified: physical work load and poor psychosocial working conditions. However, little is known about their combined effects. In this study the buffering effect of control at work with respect to the negative effects of psychological demands and physical work load on musculoskeletal problems is examined. All study variables were sampled from 431 people working in geriatric nursing homes in Germany by means of questionnaires. Main effects and interactions were tested with multiple regression analysis. The results showed that control buffered the effects of high psychological demands, but not of high physical work load; the buffering effect of control was observed only when physical work load was low. The combined effects of demands and physical work load were over-additive. Thus, the power of different predictors for musculoskeletal symptoms depended on the level of other predictors. This suggests that the efficiency of certain strategies for the prevention of musculoskeletal problems is likely to depend on the level of risk factors, with different strategies being appropriate for different levels of risk.