Subadditivity of Value-at-Risk for Bernoulli random variables

Marius Hofert and Alexander J. McNeil

Statistics & Probability Letters, 2015, vol. 98, issue C, 79-88

Abstract: Necessary and sufficient conditions for the subadditivity of Value-at-Risk (V aRα) for portfolios of bonds are presented under various dependence assumptions. For sufficiently large α, V aRα is subadditive. However, for any α one can construct portfolios for which V aRα is superadditive.

Keywords: Risk measure; Value-at-Risk; Superadditivity; Bernoulli random variables; Portfolio of bonds (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.spl.2014.12.016

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