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Subadditivity of Value-at-Risk for Bernoulli random variables

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  • Hofert, Marius
  • McNeil, Alexander J.

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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.

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  • Hofert, Marius & McNeil, Alexander J., 2015. "Subadditivity of Value-at-Risk for Bernoulli random variables," Statistics & Probability Letters, Elsevier, vol. 98(C), pages 79-88.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:stapro:v:98:y:2015:i:c:p:79-88
    DOI: 10.1016/j.spl.2014.12.016
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