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Quaedvlieg, R., Hurlin, C., Laurent, S. and Smeekes, S. (2015). Risk Measure Inference Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 35(4):499--512.


  • Affiliated author
    Rogier Quaedvlieg
  • Publication year
    2015
  • Journal
    Journal of Business and Economic Statistics

We propose a bootstrap-based test of the null hypothesis of equality of two firms{\textquoteright} conditional Risk Measures (RMs) at a single point in time. The test can be applied to a wide class of conditional risk measures issued from parametric or semi-parametric models. Our iterative testing procedure produces a grouped ranking of the RMs, which has direct application for systemic risk analysis. Firms within a group are statistically indistinguishable form each other, but significantly more risky than the firms belonging to lower ranked groups. A Monte Carlo simulation demonstrates that our test has good size and power properties. We apply the procedure to a sample of 94 U.S. financial institutions using ?CoVaR, MES, and %SRISK. We find that for some periods and RMs, we cannot statistically distinguish the 40 most risky firms due to estimation uncertainty.