Robustness in the optimization of risk measures

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DOI10.1287/OPRE.2021.2147zbMATH Open1485.90079arXiv1809.09268OpenAlexW3213769946MaRDI QIDQ5031002FDOQ5031002

Alexander Schied, Paul Embrechts, Ruodu Wang

Publication date: 18 February 2022

Published in: Operations Research (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study issues of robustness in the context of Quantitative Risk Management and Optimization. We develop a general methodology for determining whether a given risk measurement related optimization problem is robust, which we call "robustness against optimization". The new notion is studied for various classes of risk measures and expected utility and loss functions. Motivated by practical issues from financial regulation, special attention is given to the two most widely used risk measures in the industry, Value-at-Risk (VaR) and Expected Shortfall (ES). We establish that for a class of general optimization problems, VaR leads to non-robust optimizers whereas convex risk measures generally lead to robust ones. Our results offer extra insight on the ongoing discussion about the comparative advantages of VaR and ES in banking and insurance regulation. Our notion of robustness is conceptually different from the field of robust optimization, to which some interesting links are derived.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.09268




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