Journal of Energy Markets

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Two sides of the same coin: risk measures in the energy markets

Saša Žiković and Ivana Tomas Žiković

  • Advanced semiparametric VaR/ES models are required to capture the risk in the energy markets
  • There is consistency in the performance of models under both VaR and ES measures
  • Semiparametric models (FHS, MHS) ranked among the best models under both risk measures
  • Common factor is the use of empirical distribution without parameterization of returns

ABSTRACT

This study investigates whether there exist common model features that yield consistently superior results under both value-at-risk (VaR) and expected shortfall (ES) risk metrics in the energy commodities markets. We analyze the performance of ten VaR and seven ES models on the daily spot prices of West Texas Intermediate, Brent, natural gas, heating oil, US low sulphur coal and uranium yellow cake. Our backtesting results show that advanced semiparametric VaR and ES models, which entail sophisticated modeling of conditional volatility and extreme tails, are required to capture the true level of risk in the energy markets. We find consistency in the performance of tested risk models under both VaR and ES measures. In our tested sample, the filtered historical simulation and mirrored historical simulation models rank among the best VaR and ES models. A common feature of both models is that they do not make a priori parametrical assumptions about the return distribution but use empirical historical returns.

 

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