Deep Generative Modeling for Financial Time Series with Application in VaR: A Comparative Review

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Autori principali: Ericson, Lars, Zhu, Xuejun, Han, Xusi, Fu, Rao, Li, Shuang, Guo, Steve, Hu, Ping
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author Ericson, Lars
Zhu, Xuejun
Han, Xusi
Fu, Rao
Li, Shuang
Guo, Steve
Hu, Ping
author_facet Ericson, Lars
Zhu, Xuejun
Han, Xusi
Fu, Rao
Li, Shuang
Guo, Steve
Hu, Ping
contents In the financial services industry, forecasting the risk factor distribution conditional on the history and the current market environment is the key to market risk modeling in general and value at risk (VaR) model in particular. As one of the most widely adopted VaR models in commercial banks, Historical simulation (HS) uses the empirical distribution of daily returns in a historical window as the forecast distribution of risk factor returns in the next day. The objectives for financial time series generation are to generate synthetic data paths with good variety, and similar distribution and dynamics to the original historical data. In this paper, we apply multiple existing deep generative methods (e.g., CGAN, CWGAN, Diffusion, and Signature WGAN) for conditional time series generation, and propose and test two new methods for conditional multi-step time series generation, namely Encoder-Decoder CGAN and Conditional TimeVAE. Furthermore, we introduce a comprehensive framework with a set of KPIs to measure the quality of the generated time series for financial modeling. The KPIs cover distribution distance, autocorrelation and backtesting. All models (HS, parametric and neural networks) are tested on both historical USD yield curve data and additional data simulated from GARCH and CIR processes. The study shows that top performing models are HS, GARCH and CWGAN models. Future research directions in this area are also discussed.
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spellingShingle Deep Generative Modeling for Financial Time Series with Application in VaR: A Comparative Review
Ericson, Lars
Zhu, Xuejun
Han, Xusi
Fu, Rao
Li, Shuang
Guo, Steve
Hu, Ping
Computational Finance
Machine Learning
Risk Management
Statistical Finance
In the financial services industry, forecasting the risk factor distribution conditional on the history and the current market environment is the key to market risk modeling in general and value at risk (VaR) model in particular. As one of the most widely adopted VaR models in commercial banks, Historical simulation (HS) uses the empirical distribution of daily returns in a historical window as the forecast distribution of risk factor returns in the next day. The objectives for financial time series generation are to generate synthetic data paths with good variety, and similar distribution and dynamics to the original historical data. In this paper, we apply multiple existing deep generative methods (e.g., CGAN, CWGAN, Diffusion, and Signature WGAN) for conditional time series generation, and propose and test two new methods for conditional multi-step time series generation, namely Encoder-Decoder CGAN and Conditional TimeVAE. Furthermore, we introduce a comprehensive framework with a set of KPIs to measure the quality of the generated time series for financial modeling. The KPIs cover distribution distance, autocorrelation and backtesting. All models (HS, parametric and neural networks) are tested on both historical USD yield curve data and additional data simulated from GARCH and CIR processes. The study shows that top performing models are HS, GARCH and CWGAN models. Future research directions in this area are also discussed.
title Deep Generative Modeling for Financial Time Series with Application in VaR: A Comparative Review
topic Computational Finance
Machine Learning
Risk Management
Statistical Finance
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.10370