Due to their heterogeneity, insurance risks can be properly described as a mixture of different fixed models, where the weights assigned to each model may be estimated empirically from a sample of available data. If a risk measure is evaluated on the estimated mixture instead of the (unknown) true one, then it is important to investigate the committed error. In this paper we study the asymptotic behaviour of estimated risk measures, as the data sample size tends to infinity, in the fashion of large deviations. We obtain large deviation results by applying the contraction principle, and the rate functions are given by a suitable variational formula; explicit expressions are available for mixtures of two models. Finally, our results are applied to the most common risk measures, namely the quantiles, the Expected Shortfall and the shortfall risk measure.

Bignozzi, V., Macci, C., Petrella, L. (2018). Large deviations for risk measures in finite mixture models. INSURANCE MATHEMATICS & ECONOMICS, 80, 84-92 [10.1016/j.insmatheco.2018.03.005].

Large deviations for risk measures in finite mixture models

C. Macci
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2018-01-01

Abstract

Due to their heterogeneity, insurance risks can be properly described as a mixture of different fixed models, where the weights assigned to each model may be estimated empirically from a sample of available data. If a risk measure is evaluated on the estimated mixture instead of the (unknown) true one, then it is important to investigate the committed error. In this paper we study the asymptotic behaviour of estimated risk measures, as the data sample size tends to infinity, in the fashion of large deviations. We obtain large deviation results by applying the contraction principle, and the rate functions are given by a suitable variational formula; explicit expressions are available for mixtures of two models. Finally, our results are applied to the most common risk measures, namely the quantiles, the Expected Shortfall and the shortfall risk measure.
2018
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Rilevanza internazionale
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Esperti anonimi
Settore MAT/06 - PROBABILITA' E STATISTICA MATEMATICA
English
Contraction principle Lagrange multipliers Quantile Entropic risk measure Relative entropy
Bignozzi, V., Macci, C., Petrella, L. (2018). Large deviations for risk measures in finite mixture models. INSURANCE MATHEMATICS & ECONOMICS, 80, 84-92 [10.1016/j.insmatheco.2018.03.005].
Bignozzi, V; Macci, C; Petrella, L
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