Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/45630 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
KIT Working Paper Series in Economics No. 29
Publisher: 
Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT), Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre (ECON), Karlsruhe
Abstract: 
We consider the sensitivity of conditional value-at-risk (CVaR) with respect to the tail index assuming regularly varying tails and exponential and faster-than-exponential tail decay for the return distribution. We compare it to the CVaR sensitivity with respect to the scale parameter for stable Paretian, the Student's t, and generalized Gaussian laws and discuss implications for the modeling of daily returns and marginal rebalancing decisions. Finally, we explore empirically the impact on the asymptotic variability of the CVaR estimator with daily returns which is a standard choice for the return frequency for risk estimation.
Subjects: 
fat-tailed distributions
regularly varying tails
conditional value-at-risk
marginal rebalancing
asymptotic variability
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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