Forecasting value at risk in the Swedish stock market - an investigation of GARCH volatility models

The purpose of this thesis was to investigate various conditional volatility models commonly used in forecasting financial risk within the field of Financial Econometrics. The GARCH, the GJR-GARCH and the T-GARCH models were examined. The models ability to forecast the conditional variance was inves...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nilsson, Joel
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: Uppsala universitet, Nationalekonomiska institutionen 2015
Online Access:http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-261004