by Bank of England, Charles A.E. Goodhart, Dimitrios P Tsomocos, London School of Economics, Pojanart Sunirand, and Financial Markets Group
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Suggested foundations for financial time series and risk measurement and stress. Specialist prerequisites vary by paper.
Check whether a relationship can be estimated consistently over time.
Read the fitted relationship and its residuals.
Represent losses as a distribution rather than one forecast.
Distinguish a loss quantile from the average loss in the tail.
Study long-run relationships without confusing them with correlation.
Check the assumptions behind reported estimates.
Compare risk estimators and their assumptions.
Choose a reproducible strategy, specify the trading rule, and test what remains after costs and estimation uncertainty.
Connect diversification, common risk factors, investor views, and the properties of a risk measure.