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Concave risk measures in international capital regulation

Statistical Mechanics 2008-12-10 v1 Risk Management

Abstract

We show that some specific market risk measures implied by current international capital regulation (the Basel Accords and the Capital Adequacy Directive of the European Union) violate the obvious requirement of convexity in some regions in the space of portfolio weights.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0307244,
  title  = {Concave risk measures in international capital regulation},
  author = {Imre Kondor and Andras Szepessy and Tunde Ujvarosi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0307244},
  year   = {2008}
}