由於金融事件層出不窮，控管風險已成為銀行、證券、保險各種金融產業的重要課題。其中Value-at-Risk(VaR)模型為銀行與證券業最常用來衡量其市場風險的模型。VaR模型中的蒙地卡羅模擬法是將投資組合持有部位以適當的市場風險因子來表示，接著產生市場風險因子的各種情境，再結合評價公式以求得投資組合在某一段持有期間內、某一信心水準之下的最低價值，再將最低價值減去原來之價值，便為可能的最大損失(Jorion, 2007)。

使用蒙地卡羅模擬法產生市場風險因子的各種情境，必須先估計市場風險因子的共變異數矩陣，再藉此模擬出數千種市場風險因子情境。本研究便是將蒙地卡羅模擬法加入隨著時間改變之共變異數矩陣(time-varying covariance matrix)的概念並減少市場風險因子個數，利用蒙地卡羅模擬法配合Constant模型、UWMA模型、EWMA模型、Orthogonal EWMA模型、Orthogonal GARCH模型、PCA EWMA模型、PCA GARCH模型來產生市場風險因子未來的情境並比較各方法對長天期與短天期風險衡量之優劣。結果顯示PCA EWMA模型的效果最好，因此建議各大金融機構可採用PCA EWMA模型來控管其投資組合短天期與長天期的市場風險。

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