Bounds for the sum of dependent risks having overlapping marginals

  • Authors:
  • Paul Embrechts;Giovanni Puccetti

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Mathematics, ETH Zurich, CH-8092 Zurich, Switzerland;Department of Mathematics for Decisions, University of Firenze, I-50134 Firenze, Italy

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Multivariate Analysis
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

We describe several analytical and numerical procedures to obtain bounds on the distribution function of a sum of n dependent risks having fixed overlapping marginals. As an application, we produce bounds on quantile-based risk measures for portfolios of financial and actuarial interest.