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Loss-Based Risk Measures

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  • Rama Cont

    (LPMA - Laboratoire de Probabilités et Modèles Aléatoires - UPMC - Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 - UPD7 - Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, IEOR Dept - Industrial Engineering and Operations Research Department - Columbia University [New York])

  • Romain Deguest

    (EDHEC-Risk Institute - EDHEC - EDHEC Business School - UCL - Université catholique de Lille)

  • Xuedong He

    (IEOR Dept - Industrial Engineering and Operations Research Department - Columbia University [New York])

Abstract

Starting from the requirement that risk measures of financial portfolios should be based on their losses, not their gains, we define the notion of loss-based risk measure and study the properties of this class of risk measures. We characterize loss-based risk measures by a representation theorem and give examples of such risk measures. We then discuss the statistical robustness of estimators of loss-based risk measures: we provide a general criterion for qualitative robustness of risk estimators and compare this criterion with sensitivity analysis of estimators based on influence functions. Finally, we provide examples of statistically robust estimators for loss-based risk measures.

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  • Rama Cont & Romain Deguest & Xuedong He, 2011. "Loss-Based Risk Measures," Working Papers hal-00629929, HAL.
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