Financial risk measures for a network of individual agents holding portfolios of light-tailed objects

Claudia Klüppelberg, Miriam Isabel Seifert

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Abstract

We investigate a financial network of agents holding portfolios of independent light-tailed risky objects whose losses are asymptotically exponentially distributed with distinct tail parameters. We show that the asymptotic distributions of portfolio losses belong to the class of functional exponential mixtures which we introduce in this paper. We also provide results for value-at-risk and expected shortfall risk measures, as well as for their conditional counterparts. Compared to heavy-tail settings, we establish important qualitative differences in the asymptotic behaviour of portfolio risks under a light-tail assumption which have to be accounted for in practical risk management.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)795-826
Number of pages32
JournalFinance and Stochastics
Volume23
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Oct 2019

Keywords

  • Asymptotic exponential distribution
  • Expected shortfall
  • Financial network
  • Risk management
  • Value-at-risk

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