Value-at-Risk Theory and Practice

The first advanced book on value-at-risk

Chapter 1, Page 51
Exercise 14

Exhibit 1.12 illustrates three portfolio mapping functions for portfolios whose values depend upon a single key factor .As we did in Exhibits 1.8, 1.9, and 1.10, sketch what each conditional PDF of might look like assuming is conditionally normal with its mean at the mid-point of each graph.

Exhibit 1.12 Portfolio mapping functions for Exercise 1.14.

Solution

Your graphs should look something like the following.

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c.

 

 

 

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