2006•Journal of Chongqing University. English EditionRequires access

Financial Risk Measurement: CVaR

PU Yong-jian

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The precise measurement to risks is principal for the effective risk management,both major in theory and practice.Value-at-Risk,a widely accepted risk measure,has some deadly deficiencies.The authors introduce a new risk measure,Conditional-Value-at-Risk,which comes into being based on the VaR measure. They introduce CVaR's definition and the risk-measuring model on it and also its applications in portfolio management,comparatively with VaR measure.

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Key concepts: CVAR, Expected shortfall, Measure (data warehouse), Risk measure, Dynamic risk measure, Coherent risk measure, Risk management, Value at risk