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Concave risk measures in international capital regulation

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  • Imre Kondor
  • Andras Szepessy
  • Tunde Ujvarosi

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We show that some specific market risk measures implied by current international capital regulation (the Basel Accords and the Capital Adequacy Directive of the European Union) violate the obvious requirement of convexity in some regions in the space of portfolio weights.

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  • Imre Kondor & Andras Szepessy & Tunde Ujvarosi, 2003. "Concave risk measures in international capital regulation," Papers cond-mat/0307244, arXiv.org.
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    1. Imre Kondor, 2014. "Estimation Error of Expected Shortfall," Papers 1402.5534, arXiv.org.

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