Backtesting Expected Shortfall: a simple recipe?

Felix Moldenhauer and Marcin Pitera

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Abstract: We propose a new backtesting framework for Expected Shortfall that could be used by the regulator. Instead of looking at the estimated capital reserve and the realised cash-flow separately, one could bind them into the secured position, for which risk measurement is much easier. Using this simple concept combined with monotonicity of Expected Shortfall with respect to its target confidence level we introduce a natural and efficient backtesting framework. Our test statistics is given by the biggest number of worst realisations for the secured position that add up to a negative total. Surprisingly, this simple quantity could be used to construct an efficient backtesting framework for unconditional coverage of Expected Shortfall in a natural extension of the regulatory traffic-light approach for Value-at-Risk. While being easy to calculate, the test statistic is based on the underlying duality between coherent risk measures and scale-invariant performance measures.

Date: 2017-09, Revised 2018-08
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