Valor en riesgo : evaluación del desempeño de diferentes metodologías para 5 países latinoamericanos

This paper evaluates the performance of 20 different methods (parametric, and semi-parametric, and nonparametric), as well as the historical simulation method, to estimate the next-trading-day value-at risk (VaR) of a representative portfolio for 5 different Latin American countries (Argentina, Brasil, Colombia and Peru). We found that the non-parametric (i.e. historic simulation), and the semi-parametric methods were the best way to estimate the risk among the twenty different methods evaluated for all the countries in the sample.