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Fair estimation of capital risk allocation

  • Tomasz R. Bielecki , Igor Cialenco ORCID logo , Marcin Pitera ORCID logo and Thorsten Schmidt ORCID logo EMAIL logo

Abstract

In this paper, we develop a novel methodology for estimation of risk capital allocation. The methodology is rooted in the theory of risk measures. We work within a general, but tractable class of law-invariant coherent risk measures, with a particular focus on expected shortfall. We introduce the concept of fair capital allocations and provide explicit formulae for fair capital allocations in case when the constituents of the risky portfolio are jointly normally distributed. The main focus of the paper is on the problem of approximating fair portfolio allocations in the case of not fully known law of the portfolio constituents. We define and study the concepts of fair allocation estimators and asymptotically fair allocation estimators. A substantial part of our study is devoted to the problem of estimating fair risk allocations for expected shortfall. We study this problem under normality as well as in a nonparametric setup. We derive several estimators, and prove their fairness and/or asymptotic fairness. Last, but not least, we propose two backtesting methodologies that are oriented at assessing the performance of the allocation estimation procedure. The paper closes with a substantial numerical study of the subject and an application to market data.

Award Identifier / Grant number: DMS-1907568

Funding source: Narodowe Centrum Nauki

Award Identifier / Grant number: 2016/23/B/ST1/00479

Funding statement: Tomasz R. Bielecki and Igor Cialenco acknowledge support from the National Science Foundation grant DMS-1907568. Marcin Pitera acknowledges support from the National Science Centre, Poland, via project 2016/23/B/ST1/00479.

Acknowledgements

Thorsten Schmidt thanks the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS) for generous hospitality and support. The authors would also like to thank the anonymous referees, the associate editor and the editor for their helpful comments and suggestions which improved greatly the final manuscript.

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Received: 2019-05-18
Revised: 2020-02-11
Accepted: 2020-02-11
Published Online: 2020-02-28
Published in Print: 2020-03-01

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