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Online Estimation and Optimization of Utility-Based Shortfall Risk

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  • Vishwajit Hegde
  • Arvind S. Menon
  • L. A. Prashanth
  • Krishna Jagannathan

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Utility-Based Shortfall Risk (UBSR) is a risk metric that is increasingly popular in financial applications, owing to certain desirable properties that it enjoys. We consider the problem of estimating UBSR in a recursive setting, where samples from the underlying loss distribution are available one-at-a-time. We cast the UBSR estimation problem as a root finding problem, and propose stochastic approximation-based estimations schemes. We derive non-asymptotic bounds on the estimation error in the number of samples. We also consider the problem of UBSR optimization within a parameterized class of random variables. We propose a stochastic gradient descent based algorithm for UBSR optimization, and derive non-asymptotic bounds on its convergence.

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  • Vishwajit Hegde & Arvind S. Menon & L. A. Prashanth & Krishna Jagannathan, 2021. "Online Estimation and Optimization of Utility-Based Shortfall Risk," Papers 2111.08805, arXiv.org, revised Nov 2023.
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