Financial institutions are expected to express the market risk of their investment tools in the international reports via Value at Risk (VaR) measure. While VaR approaches to the left tail of a return distribution at a certain confidence level as a breakpoint, the Conditional VaR (CVaR), which provides the characteristics of being a consistent measure of risk, focuses on the left tail of the distribution by taking the mean value. In this study, VaR and CVaR of five different cryptocurrencies returns are calculated by parametric and nonparametric approaches. Regarding to VaR and CVaR calculations with both parametric and non-parametric approaches, the results indicate that Ripple generally has the highest market risk, and as a stable type Bitcoin is the least risky cryptocurrency. According to the results of backtesting, it is seen that the non-parametric CVaR approach provides a predictable risk measurement with the least number of exceedence, compared to other cryptocurrencies. Moreover, the portfolio weight of cryptocurrencies increases in portfolios with minimum risk using different instruments, the portfolio return also increases. This result shows that crypto coins can be used in portfolio diversification. Our results provide investors and researchers with quantitative information on the level of sensitivity of cryptocurrencies to losses as an investment tool.
Primary Language | Turkish |
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Subjects | Economics |
Journal Section | Makaleler |
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Publication Date | August 23, 2021 |
Submission Date | October 16, 2020 |
Published in Issue | Year 2021 Volume: 5 Issue: 1 |