The Systematic Risk at the Crisis—A Multifractal Non-Uniform Wavelet Systematic Risk Estimation

In the last decade, many factors, such as socio-political and econo-environmental ones, have led to a perturbation in the timeline of the worldwide development, and especially in countries and regions having political changes. This led us to introduce a new idea of risk estimation taking into account the non-uniform changes in markets by introducing a non-uniform wavelet analysis. We aim to explain the econo-political situation of Arab spring countries and the effect of the revolutions on the market beta. The main novelty is first the construction of a dynamic backward-forward model for missing data, and next the application of random non-uniform wavelets. The proposed procedure will be acted empirically on a sample corresponding to TUNINDEX stock as a representative index of the Tunisian market actively traded over the period from 14 January 2016 to 13 January 2021. The chosen 5-year period is important as it constitutes the first five years after the revolution and depends strongly on the socio-econo-political stability in the revolutionary countries. The results showed the efficiency of non-uniform wavelets in explaining the dynamics of the market well. They therefore may be good tools to explore important phenomena in the market such as the non-stationary aspect of financial series, non-constancy, and time-varying parameters. These facts in turn will have positive implications for investors as well as politicians in front of the evolution of the market. Besides, recommendations to extend the present method for other types of wavelets and markets will be of interest.