Tail value at risk

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In financial mathematics, tail value at risk (TVaR), also known as tail conditional expectation (TCE) or conditional tail expectation (CTE), is a risk measure associated with the more general value at risk. It quantifies the expected value of the loss given that an event outside a given probability level has occurred.

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Background

There are a number of related, but subtly different, formulations for TVaR in the literature. A common case in literature is to define TVaR and average value at risk as the same measure. [1] Under some formulations, it is only equivalent to expected shortfall when the underlying distribution function is continuous at , the value at risk of level . [2] Under some other settings, TVaR is the conditional expectation of loss above a given value, whereas the expected shortfall is the product of this value with the probability of it occurring. [3] The former definition may not be a coherent risk measure in general, however it is coherent if the underlying distribution is continuous. [4] The latter definition is a coherent risk measure. [3] TVaR accounts for the severity of the failure, not only the chance of failure. The TVaR is a measure of the expectation only in the tail of the distribution.

Mathematical definition

The canonical tail value at risk is the left-tail (large negative values) in some disciplines and the right-tail (large positive values) in other, such as actuarial science. This is usually due to the differing conventions of treating losses as large negative or positive values. Using the negative value convention, Artzner and others define the tail value at risk as:

Given a random variable which is the payoff of a portfolio at some future time and given a parameter then the tail value at risk is defined by [5] [6] [7] [8]

where is the upper -quantile given by . Typically the payoff random variable is in some Lp-space where to guarantee the existence of the expectation. The typical values for are 5% and 1%.

Formulas for continuous probability distributions

Closed-form formulas exist for calculating TVaR when the payoff of a portfolio or a corresponding loss follows a specific continuous distribution. If follows some probability distribution with the probability density function (p.d.f.) and the cumulative distribution function (c.d.f.) , the left-tail TVaR can be represented as

For engineering or actuarial applications it is more common to consider the distribution of losses , in this case the right-tail TVaR is considered (typically for 95% or 99%):

Since some formulas below were derived for the left-tail case and some for the right-tail case, the following reconciliations can be useful:

and

Normal distribution

If the payoff of a portfolio follows normal (Gaussian) distribution with the p.d.f.

then the left-tail TVaR is equal to

where is the standard normal p.d.f., is the standard normal c.d.f., so is the standard normal quantile. [9] If the loss of a portfolio follows normal distribution, the right-tail TVaR is equal to [10]

Generalized Student's t-distribution

If the payoff of a portfolio follows generalized Student's t-distribution with the p.d.f.

then the left-tail TVaR is equal to

where

is the standard t-distribution p.d.f., is the standard t-distribution c.d.f., so is the standard t-distribution quantile. [9] If the loss of a portfolio follows generalized Student's t-distribution, the right-tail TVaR is equal to [10]

Laplace distribution

If the payoff of a portfolio follows Laplace distribution with the p.d.f.

and the c.d.f.

then the left-tail TVaR is equal to for . [9] If the loss of a portfolio follows Laplace distribution, the right-tail TVaR is equal to [10]

Logistic distribution

If the payoff of a portfolio follows logistic distribution with the p.d.f.

and the c.d.f.

then the left-tail TVaR is equal to [9]

If the loss of a portfolio follows logistic distribution, the right-tail TVaR is equal to [10]

Exponential distribution

If the loss of a portfolio follows exponential distribution with the p.d.f.

and the c.d.f.

then the right-tail TVaR is equal to [10]

Pareto distribution

If the loss of a portfolio follows Pareto distribution with the p.d.f.

and the c.d.f.

then the right-tail TVaR is equal to [10]

Generalized Pareto distribution (GPD)

If the loss of a portfolio follows GPD with the p.d.f.

and the c.d.f.

then the right-tail TVaR is equal to

and the VaR is equal to [10]

Weibull distribution

If the loss of a portfolio follows Weibull distribution with the p.d.f.

and the c.d.f.

then the right-tail TVaR is equal to

where is the upper incomplete gamma function. [10]

Generalized extreme value distribution (GEV)

If the payoff of a portfolio follows GEV with the p.d.f.

and the c.d.f.

then the left-tail TVaR is equal to

and the VaR is equal to

where is the upper incomplete gamma function, is the logarithmic integral function. [11] If the loss of a portfolio follows GEV, then the right-tail TVaR is equal to

where is the lower incomplete gamma function, is the Euler-Mascheroni constant. [10]

Generalized hyperbolic secant (GHS) distribution

If the payoff of a portfolio follows GHS distribution with the p.d.f.

and the c.d.f.

then the left-tail TVaR is equal to

where is the Spence's function, is the imaginary unit. [11]

Johnson's SU-distribution

If the payoff of a portfolio follows Johnson's SU-distribution with the c.d.f.

then the left-tail TVaR is equal to

where is the c.d.f. of the standard normal distribution. [12]

Burr type XII distribution

If the payoff of a portfolio follows the Burr type XII distribution with the p.d.f.

and the c.d.f.

the left-tail TVaR is equal to

where is the hypergeometric function. Alternatively, [11]

Dagum distribution

If the payoff of a portfolio follows the Dagum distribution with the p.d.f.

and the c.d.f.

the left-tail TVaR is equal to

where is the hypergeometric function. [11]

Lognormal distribution

If the payoff of a portfolio follows lognormal distribution, i.e. the random variable follows normal distribution with the p.d.f.

then the left-tail TVaR is equal to

where is the standard normal c.d.f., so is the standard normal quantile. [13]

Log-logistic distribution

If the payoff of a portfolio follows log-logistic distribution, i.e. the random variable follows logistic distribution with the p.d.f.

then the left-tail TVaR is equal to

where is the regularized incomplete beta function, . As the incomplete beta function is defined only for positive arguments, for a more generic case the left-tail TVaR can be expressed with the hypergeometric function: [13]

If the loss of a portfolio follows log-logistic distribution with p.d.f.

and c.d.f.

then the right-tail TVaR is equal to

where is the incomplete beta function. [10]

Log-Laplace distribution

If the payoff of a portfolio follows log-Laplace distribution, i.e. the random variable follows Laplace distribution the p.d.f.

then the left-tail TVaR is equal to [13]

Log-generalized hyperbolic secant (log-GHS) distribution

If the payoff of a portfolio follows log-GHS distribution, i.e. the random variable follows GHS distribution with the p.d.f.

then the left-tail TVaR is equal to

where is the hypergeometric function. [13]

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