Upper Comonotonicity and Risk Aggregation under Dependence Uncertainty

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Autori principali: De Vecchi, Corrado, Nendel, Max, Streicher, Jan
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author De Vecchi, Corrado
Nendel, Max
Streicher, Jan
author_facet De Vecchi, Corrado
Nendel, Max
Streicher, Jan
contents In this paper, we study dependence uncertainty and the resulting effects on tail risk measures, which play a fundamental role in modern risk management. We introduce the notion of a regular dependence measure, defined on multi-marginal couplings, as a generalization of well-known correlation statistics such as the Pearson correlation. The first main result states that even an arbitrarily small positive dependence between losses can result in perfectly correlated tails beyond a certain threshold and seemingly complete independence before this threshold. In a second step, we focus on the aggregation of individual risks with known marginal distributions by means of arbitrary nondecreasing left-continuous aggregation functions. In this context, we show that under an arbitrarily small positive dependence, the tail risk of the aggregate loss might coincide with the one of perfectly correlated losses. A similar result is derived for expectiles under mild conditions. In a last step, we discuss our results in the context of credit risk, analyzing the potential effects on the value at risk for weighted sums of Bernoulli distributed losses.
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spellingShingle Upper Comonotonicity and Risk Aggregation under Dependence Uncertainty
De Vecchi, Corrado
Nendel, Max
Streicher, Jan
Risk Management
Mathematical Finance
In this paper, we study dependence uncertainty and the resulting effects on tail risk measures, which play a fundamental role in modern risk management. We introduce the notion of a regular dependence measure, defined on multi-marginal couplings, as a generalization of well-known correlation statistics such as the Pearson correlation. The first main result states that even an arbitrarily small positive dependence between losses can result in perfectly correlated tails beyond a certain threshold and seemingly complete independence before this threshold. In a second step, we focus on the aggregation of individual risks with known marginal distributions by means of arbitrary nondecreasing left-continuous aggregation functions. In this context, we show that under an arbitrarily small positive dependence, the tail risk of the aggregate loss might coincide with the one of perfectly correlated losses. A similar result is derived for expectiles under mild conditions. In a last step, we discuss our results in the context of credit risk, analyzing the potential effects on the value at risk for weighted sums of Bernoulli distributed losses.
title Upper Comonotonicity and Risk Aggregation under Dependence Uncertainty
topic Risk Management
Mathematical Finance
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.19242