Quantiles under ambiguity and risk sharing

Peng Liu, Tiantian Mao and Ruodu Wang

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Abstract: Choquet capacities and integrals are central concepts in decision making under ambiguity or model uncertainty, pioneered by Schmeidler. Motivated by risk optimization problems for quantiles under ambiguity, we study the subclass of Choquet integrals, called Choquet quantiles, which generalizes the usual (probabilistic) quantiles, also known as Value-at-Risk in finance, from probabilities to capacities. Choquet quantiles share many features with probabilistic quantiles, in terms of axiomatic representation, optimization formulas, and risk sharing. We characterize Choquet quantiles via only one axiom, called ordinality. We prove that the inf-convolution of Choquet quantiles is again a Choquet quantile, leading to explicit optimal allocations in risk sharing problems for quantile agents under ambiguity. A new class of risk measures, Choquet Expected Shortfall, is introduced, which enjoys most properties of the coherent risk measure Expected Shortfall. Our theory is complemented by optimization algorithms, numerical examples, and a stylized illustration with financial data.

Date: 2024-12
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