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Large deviations built on max-stability

Functional Analysis 2020-08-19 v3

Abstract

In this paper, we show that the basic results in large deviations theory hold for general monetary risk measures, which satisfy the crucial property of max-stability. A max-stable monetary risk measure fulfills a lattice homomorphism property, and satisfies under a suitable tightness condition the Laplace Principle (LP), that is, admits a dual representation with affine convex conjugate. By replacing asymptotic concentration of probability by concentration of risk, we formulate a Large Deviation Principle (LDP) for max-stable monetary risk measures, and show its equivalence to the LP. In particular, the special case of the asymptotic entropic risk measure corresponds to the classical Varadhan-Bryc equivalence between the LDP and LP. The main results are illustrated by the asymptotic shortfall risk measure.

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@article{arxiv.1912.04666,
  title  = {Large deviations built on max-stability},
  author = {Michael Kupper and José Miguel Zapata},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1912.04666},
  year   = {2020}
}