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Tail Risk Equivalent Level Transition and Its Application for Estimating Extreme $L_p$-quantiles

Methodology 2024-12-16 v1

Abstract

LpL_p-quantile has recently been receiving growing attention in risk management since it has desirable properties as a risk measure and is a generalization of two widely applied risk measures, Value-at-Risk and Expectile. The statistical methodology for LpL_p-quantile is not only feasible but also straightforward to implement as it represents a specific form of M-quantile using pp-power loss function. In this paper, we introduce the concept of Tail Risk Equivalent Level Transition (TRELT) to capture changes in tail risk when we make a risk transition between two LpL_p-quantiles. TRELT is motivated by PELVE in Li and Wang (2023) but for tail risk. As it remains unknown in theory how this transition works, we investigate the existence, uniqueness, and asymptotic properties of TRELT (as well as dual TRELT) for LpL_p-quantiles. In addition, we study the inference methods for TRELT and extreme LpL_p-quantiles by using this risk transition, which turns out to be a novel extrapolation method in extreme value theory. The asymptotic properties of the proposed estimators are established, and both simulation studies and real data analysis are conducted to demonstrate their empirical performance.

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@article{arxiv.2412.09872,
  title  = {Tail Risk Equivalent Level Transition and Its Application for Estimating Extreme $L_p$-quantiles},
  author = {Qingzhao Zhong and Yanxi Hou},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.09872},
  year   = {2024}
}
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