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Recent crises in the financial industry have shown weaknesses in the modeling of Risk-Weighted Assets (RWAs). Relatively minor model changes may lead to substantial changes in the RWA numbers. Similar problems are encountered in the Value-at-Risk (VaR)-aggregation of risks. In this article, we...
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The notion of statistical arbitrage introduced in Bondarenko (2003) is generalized to statistical G-arbitrage corresponding to trading strategies which yield positive gains on average in a class of scenarios described by a σ-algebra G. This notion contains classical arbitrage as a special case....
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We study upper and lower bounds on the expectile risk measure of risky portfolios when the joint distribution of the risky components is not fully specified. First, we summarize methods for obtaining bounds when only the marginal distributions of the components are known, but not their...
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Dybvig ( 1988a , 1988b ) solves in a complete market setting the problem of finding a payoff that is cheapest possible in reaching a given target distribution (“cost-efficient payoff”). In the presence of ambiguity, the distribution of a payoff is, however, no longer known with certainty. We...
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Actuarial fairness pertains to the situation in which the price of an insurance contract is equal to its expected outcome. We show that actuarial fairness leads to "unfairness" in that annuitants with higher survival rates can choose a better payoff in the sense of second-order stochastic...
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