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Convex Risk Measures based on Divergence

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  • Paul Dommel
  • Alois Pichler

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Risk measures connect probability theory or statistics to optimization, particularly to convex optimization. They are nowadays standard in applications of finance and in insurance involving risk aversion. This paper investigates a wide class of risk measures on Orlicz spaces. The characterizing function describes the decision maker's risk assessment towards increasing losses. We link the risk measures to a crucial formula developed by Rockafellar for the Average Value-at-Risk based on convex duality, which is fundamental in corresponding optimization problems. We characterize the dual and provide complementary representations.

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  • Paul Dommel & Alois Pichler, 2020. "Convex Risk Measures based on Divergence," Papers 2003.07648, arXiv.org, revised Mar 2020.
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    1. Acerbi, Carlo, 2002. "Spectral measures of risk: A coherent representation of subjective risk aversion," Journal of Banking & Finance, Elsevier, vol. 26(7), pages 1505-1518, July.
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    1. Rui Ding, 2023. "f-Betas and Portfolio Optimization with f-Divergence induced Risk Measures," Papers 2302.00452, arXiv.org, revised May 2023.

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