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Second order asymptotics of aggregated log-elliptical risk

Probability 2014-12-12 v1 Computation

Abstract

In this paper we establish the error rate of first order asymptotic approximation for the tail probability of sums of log-elliptical risks. Our approach is motivated by extreme value theory which allows us to impose only some weak asymptotic conditions satisfied in particular by log-normal risks. Given the wide range of applications of the log-normal model in finance and insurance our result is of interest for both rare-event simulations and numerical calculations. We present numerical examples which illustrate that the second order approximation derived in this paper significantly improves over the first order approximation.

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@article{arxiv.1405.0605,
  title  = {Second order asymptotics of aggregated log-elliptical risk},
  author = {D. Kortschak and E. Hashorva},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1405.0605},
  year   = {2014}
}

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in press in Methodology and Computing in Applied Probability