IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/rsk/journ4/2160961.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Testing hedge effectiveness for option positions

Author

Listed:
  • Jeroen Kerkhof, Bertrand Melenberg, J. M. Schumacher*

Abstract

ABSTRACT In this paper we test several models for the computation of risk measures. Our framework applies not only to value-at-risk but also to expected shortfall and other risk measures that depend on information from the tail distribution. We concentrate on market risk as represented by single-period hedge errors of delta-hedged option positions. For cases in which we only have price data for options with fixed time of maturity, we propose a transformation procedure to compensate for the change in risk characteristics of the option position over time. Our results indicate that it is crucial to take changes of volatility into account; this may be done by using historical simulation or by a simple vector autoregressive model.

Suggested Citation

Handle: RePEc:rsk:journ4:2160961
as

Download full text from publisher

File URL: https://www.risk.net/system/files/import/protected/digital_assets/4754/jor_v8n2a4.pdf
Download Restriction: no
---><---

More about this item

Statistics

Access and download statistics

Corrections

All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:rsk:journ4:2160961. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Thomas Paine (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://www.risk.net/journal-of-risk .

Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.