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On Prudence of Risk Measures

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  • Niushan Gao
  • Denny H. Leung
  • Foivos Xanthos

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Prudence is a stability property of risk functionals recently introduced by Wang and Zitikis and subsequently studied by Amarante and Liebrich. In this paper, we first establish general relationships between prudence and other stability properties, showing, in particular, that weak prudence and prudence coincide for a broad class of convex, law-invariant functionals. We then prove that prudence is preserved by cash-additive hulls of star-shaped functionals under a simple asymptotic condition, and by inf-convolutions of convex, cash-additive, law-invariant prudent functionals. Our results provide general methods for constructing prudent risk measures from existing prudent functionals.

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  • Niushan Gao & Denny H. Leung & Foivos Xanthos, 2026. "On Prudence of Risk Measures," Papers 2606.21871, arXiv.org.
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