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New class of distortion risk measures and their tail asymptotics with emphasis on VaR

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  • Chuancun Yin
  • Dan Zhu

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Distortion risk measures are extensively used in finance and insurance applications because of their appealing properties. We present three methods to construct new class of distortion functions and measures. The approach involves the composting methods, the mixing methods and the approach that based on the theory of copula. Subadditivity is an important property when aggregating risks in order to preserve the benefits of diversification. However, Value at risk (VaR), as the most well-known example of distortion risk measure is not always globally subadditive, except of elliptically distributed risks. In this paper, instead of study subadditivity we investigate the tail subadditivity for VaR and other distortion risk measures. In particular, we demonstrate that VaR is tail subadditive for the case where the support of risk is bounded. Various examples are also presented to illustrate the results.

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  • Chuancun Yin & Dan Zhu, 2015. "New class of distortion risk measures and their tail asymptotics with emphasis on VaR," Papers 1503.08586, arXiv.org, revised Mar 2016.
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