Suppose that the value of an index of the stock market increases on average about 0.02% per day (calculated with continuous discounting) and a volatility (i.e., standard deviation) of 1% per day. Assuming that the returns are Normally distributed, what would be the 5% Daily Expected Shortfall (ES) expressed as a percent return? (Note: Enter your answer rounded to the nearest 2 decimal places. (For example, -1.2345% should be entered as -1.23%)
Continuous Probability Distributions
Probability distributions are of two types, which are continuous probability distributions and discrete probability distributions. A continuous probability distribution contains an infinite number of values. For example, if time is infinite: you could count from 0 to a trillion seconds, billion seconds, so on indefinitely. A discrete probability distribution consists of only a countable set of possible values.
Normal Distribution
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Suppose that the value of an index of the stock market increases on average about 0.02% per day (calculated with continuous discounting) and a volatility (i.e., standard deviation) of 1% per day. Assuming that the returns are
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