Worst-case bounds on the expected shortfall risk given only limited information on the distribution of the random variables has been studied extensively in the literature. In this paper, we develop a new worst-case bound on the expected shortfall when the univariate marginals are known exactly and additional expert inf…
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This paper assesses tail risk and systemic risk in cryptocurrencies using expectiles and MES.
Optimizes risk measures given known marginal distributions of two unknown factors.
This paper applies the Extreme-Value (EV) Generalised Pareto distribution to the extreme tails of the return distributions for the S&P500, FT100, DAX, Hang Seng, and Nikkei225 futures contracts. It then uses tail estimators from these contracts to estimate spectral risk measures, which are coherent risk measures that r…
Copulas outperform marginal models in multivariate risk forecasting, reducing model risk by narrowing down the set of models.
The paper calculates MES bounds for systemic risk contributions under uncertain dependence.
The paper examines higher moments in insurance, focusing on coskewness and its impact on actuarial quantities.
A new method tests Expected Shortfall by analyzing both duration and severity of VaR violations.
The paper proposes efficient methods to learn VaR and ES using neural networks and Monte Carlo simulations.
Gaussian random vectors exhibit the loss of dimension phenomena, which relate to their joint survival tail behaviour. Besides, the fact that the components of such vectors are light-tailed complicates the approximations of various multivariate risk measures significantly. In this contribution we derive precise approxim…
A new explicit scheme calculates XVA adjustments using neural networks and conditional expectations.
It is well known that Expected Shortfall (also called Average Value-at-Risk) is a convex risk measure, i. e. Expected Shortfall of a convex linear combination of arbitrary risk positions is not greater than a convex linear combination with the same weights of Expected Shortfalls of the same risk positions. In this shor…
This research improves forecasting and testing of risk contributions using Expected Shortfall.
Expectile bears some interesting properties in comparison to the industry wide expected shortfall in terms of assessment of tail risk. We study the relationship between expectile and expected shortfall using duality results and the link to optimized certainty equivalent. Lower and upper bounds of expectile are derived …
We refine Expected Shortfall by controlling different tail portions, offering tailored risk assessments.
We offer a simplified proof for Expected Shortfall's dual representation.
The expectile can be considered as a generalization of quantile. While expected shortfall is a quantile based risk measure, we study its counterpart -- the expectile based expected shortfall -- where expectile takes the place of quantile. We provide its dual representation in terms of Bochner integral. Among other prop…
Investigates a new measure PELVE_n for risk assessment.
This paper introduces a new systemic risk measure, JMES, and its associated contribution measures.
Expected Shortfall (ES) in several variants has been proposed as remedy for the defi-ciencies of Value-at-Risk (VaR) which in general is not a coherent risk measure. In fact, most definitions of ES lead to the same results when applied to continuous loss distributions. Differences may appear when the underlying loss di…
This paper solves robust utility maximization with unknown claim dependencies.
The problem of estimation error of Expected Shortfall is analyzed, with a view of its introduction as a global regulatory risk measure.
Investigates risk measures for DC pension decumulation.
Submodularity is studied for convex risk measures, including Expected Shortfall.
Introduces Lambda Expected Shortfall as a risk measure generalizing ES.
A new tail-shape index based on Value at Risk and Expected Shortfall.
Financial institutions have to allocate so-called "economic capital" in order to guarantee solvency to their clients and counter parties. Mathematically speaking, any methodology of allocating capital is a "risk measure", i.e. a function mapping random variables to the real numbers. Nowadays "value-at-risk", which is d…
New method optimizes risk estimation for financial losses.
Study improves accuracy of risk measures using advanced algorithms.
New AI models improve financial hedging by reducing shortfall and tail risk.
We present the Shortfall Deviation Risk (SDR), a risk measure that represents the expected loss that occurs with certain probability penalized by the dispersion of results that are worse than such an expectation. SDR combines Expected Shortfall (ES) and Shortfall Deviation (SD), which we also introduce, contemplating t…
We propose a new backtesting framework for Expected Shortfall that could be used by the regulator. Instead of looking at the estimated capital reserve and the realised cash-flow separately, one could bind them into the secured position, for which risk measurement is much easier. Using this simple concept combined with …
This paper applies an AR(1)-GARCH (1, 1) process to detail the conditional distributions of the return distributions for the S&P500, FT100, DAX, Hang Seng, and Nikkei225 futures contracts. It then uses the conditional distribution for these contracts to estimate spectral risk measures, which are coherent risk measures …
CAESar improves risk forecasting by combining VaR and ES estimates.
The standard theory of coherent risk measures fails to consider individual institutions as part of a system which might itself experience instability and spread new sources of risk to the market participants. In compliance with an approach adopted by Shapley and Shubik (1969), this paper proposes a cooperative market g…
This paper presents analytical solutions to the problem of how to calculate sensible VaR (Value-at-Risk) and ES (Expected Shortfall) contributions in the CreditRisk+ methodology. Via the ES contributions, ES itself can be exactly computed in finitely many steps. The methods are illustrated by numerical examples.
For a linear combination of random variables, fix some confidence level and consider the quantile of the combination at this level. We are interested in the partial derivatives of the quantile with respect to the weights of the random variables in the combination. It turns out that under suitable conditions on the join…
The contour map of estimation error of Expected Shortfall (ES) is constructed. It allows one to quantitatively determine the sample size (the length of the time series) required by the optimization under ES of large institutional portfolios for a given size of the portfolio, at a given confidence level and a given esti…
The paper analyzes systemic risk in an insurance model with multiple business lines and heterogeneous claims.
Combines VaR and ES forecasts for cryptocurrency market risk management.
In this paper, we generalize the parametric delta-VaR method from portfolios with normally distributed risk factors to portfolios with elliptically distributed ones. We treat both the expected shortfall and the Value-at-Risk of such portfolios. Special attention is given to the particular case of a multivariate t-distr…
In this note, we comment on the relevance of elicitability for backtesting risk measure estimates. In particular, we propose the use of Diebold-Mariano tests, and show how they can be implemented for Expected Shortfall (ES), based on the recent result of Fissler and Ziegel (2015) that ES is jointly elicitable with Valu…
New risk measures adjust for tail risk inadequacies.
Study asymptotic properties of generalized shortfall risk measures for heavy-tailed risks.
The paper optimizes reinsurance under uncertain dependence among insurers.
Optimal retirement timing and consumption under shortfall risk management
We show that coherent risk measures are ineffective in curbing the behaviour of investors with limited liability or excessive tail-risk seeking behaviour if the market admits statistical arbitrage opportunities which we term -arbitrage for a risk measure . We show how to determine analytically whether such -ar…
We introduce and compare new variability measures based on risk quantiles.