This article determines the type of asymptotic distribution for the extreme changes in U.S. Treasury yields. The thin-tailed Gumbel and exponential distributions are strongly rejected against the fat-tailed Frechet and Pareto distributions. The empirical results indicate that the volatility of maximal and minimal changes in interest rates declines as time-to-maturity rises, yielding a downward-sloping volatility curve for the extremes. The article proposes an extreme value approach to estimating value at risk and shows that the statistical theory of extremes provides a more accurate approach for risk management and value at risk (VaR) calculations than the standard models.
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Volume (Year): 76 (2003) Issue (Month): 1 (January) Pages: 83-108 Download reference. The following formats are available: HTML,
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