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Chinese Journal of Management Science ›› 2026, Vol. 34 ›› Issue (3): 39-50.doi: 10.16381/j.cnki.issn1003-207x.2022.0618

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Estimating Extreme Risk Measures of Grain Future Market Based on Event Flow Models

Zhiqiang Jiang1, Haiyan Hu1, Pengfei Dai2(), Li Wang1, Weixing Zhou1   

  1. 1.School of Business,East China University of Science and Technology,Shanghai 200237,China
    2.School of Management,Wuhan University of Technology,Wuhan 430070,China
  • Received:2022-03-29 Revised:2022-07-02 Online:2026-03-25 Published:2026-03-06
  • Contact: Pengfei Dai E-mail:pfdai@whut.edu.cn

Abstract:

Food plays a critical role in human survival and development, and has always been the global focus. Recently, natural and social events such as rising energy prices, frequent extreme weather, the severe COVID-19, and the Russian-Ukrainian conflict have jointly pushed up the food prices. Keeping food price staying in a reasonable range and preventing extreme fluctuations are crucial to ensure national food security. It is of strategic significance to pay attention to the stable operation of the grain futures market, extreme risk management and early warning.By utilizing the prices of grain futures in the US (CBOT rice, CBOT wheat, CBOT corn) and the Chinese markets (ZCE rice, ZCE wheat, DCE corn), the data are described and visualized, and the clustering characteristics of extreme risks are uncovered.Then event flow models are employed to model the occurring process of extreme fluctuations by means of the ACD-POT model and Hawkes-POT model and derive the formula of extreme risk measures (VaR).Finally, three accuracy test methods are used to evaluate the fitting and prediction effects of the benchmark models (POT, EGARCH-POT), the event flow models (ACD-POT model, Hawkes-POT model), and the ensemble model.The results show that event flow models are able to capture the fat-tailed and clustering characteristics of extreme price fluctuations and fits the price data very well. In addition, further comparison finds that the in-sample and out-of-sample accuracy of Hawkes-POT models is better than other models, and the power-law Hawkes-POT model performs the best. The results not only deepen our understanding of the occurring pattern of extreme price fluctuations in grain futures, but also provide a new avenue for risk management and market supervision in food markets.

Key words: extreme risk, extreme value theory, autoregressive conditional duration (ACD) model, Hawkes process, Value at Risk (VaR)

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