The risk function of the goodness-of-fit tests for tail models

Ingo Hoffmann () and Christoph J. Börner ()
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Ingo Hoffmann: Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Christoph J. Börner: Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf

Statistical Papers, 2021, vol. 62, issue 4, No 12, 1853-1869

Abstract: Abstract This paper contributes to answering a question that is of crucial importance in risk management and extreme value theory: How to select the threshold above which one assumes that the tail of a distribution follows a generalized Pareto distribution. This question has gained increasing attention, particularly in finance institutions, as the recent regulative norms require the assessment of risk at high quantiles. Recent methods answer this question by multiple uses of the standard goodness-of-fit tests. These tests are based on a particular choice of symmetric weighting of the mean square error between the empirical and the fitted tail distributions. Assuming an asymmetric weighting, which rates high quantiles more than small ones, we propose new goodness-of-fit tests and automated threshold selection procedures. We consider a parameterized family of asymmetric weight functions and calculate the corresponding mean square error as a loss function. Then we explicitly determine the risk function as the expected value of the loss function for finite sample. Finally, the risk function can be used to discuss whether a symmetric or asymmetric weight function should be chosen. With this the goodness-of-fit test which should be used in a new method for determining the threshold value is specified.

Keywords: Decision theory; Risk function; Goodness-of-fit tests; Tail model; 62C99; 62E17 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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