The Limits of Conditional Volatility: Assessing Cryptocurrency VaR under EWMA and IGARCH Models
The application of the standard static Geometric Brownian Motion (GBM) model for cryptocurrency risk management resulted in a systemic failure, evidenced by a 80.67% chance of loss in the 5% value-at-risk benchmark. This study addresses a critical literature gap by comparatively testing three conditional volatility models the...