Statistical Estimation for Covariance Structures with Tail Estimates using Nodewise Quantile Predictive Regression Models

Christis Katsouris

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Statistical Estimation for Covariance Structures with Tail Estimates using Nodewise Quantile Predictive Regression Models

Christis Katsouris

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This paper considers the specification of covariance structures with tail estimates. We focus on two aspects: (i) the estimation of the VaR-CoVaR risk matrix in the case of larger number of time series observations than assets in a portfolio using quantile predictive regression models without assuming the presence of nonstationary regressors and; (ii) the construction of a novel variable selection algorithm, so-called, Feature Ordering by Centrality Exclusion (FOCE), which is based on an assumption-lean regression framework, has no tuning parameters and is proved to be consistent under general sparsity assumptions. We illustrate the usefulness of our proposed methodology with numerical studies of real and simulated datasets when modelling systemic risk in a network.

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Christis Katsouris. 2023-05-18. Statistical Estimation for Covariance Structures with Tail Estimates using Nodewise Quantile Predictive Regression Models. https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.11282

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