A quantitative comparison of risk measures

Alois Pichler ()
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Alois Pichler: Technische Universität Chemnitz, Fakultät für Mathematik

Annals of Operations Research, 2017, vol. 254, issue 1, No 13, 275 pages

Abstract: Abstract The choice of a risk measure reflects a subjective preference of the decision maker in many managerial or real world economic problem formulations. To assess the impact of personal preferences it is thus of interest to have comparisons with other risk measures at hand. This paper develops a framework for comparing different risk measures. We establish a one-to-one relationship between norms and risk measures, that is, we associate a norm with a risk measure and conversely, we use norms to recover a genuine risk measure. The methods allow tight comparisons of risk measures and tight lower and upper bounds for risk measures are made available whenever possible. In this way we present a general framework for comparing risk measures with applications in numerous directions.

Keywords: Risk measures; Dual representation; Fenchel–Young inequality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1007/s10479-017-2397-3

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