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Different approaches to loss modeling and their impact on risk measure assessment
Add to Calendar 2018-10-11T20:00:00 2018-10-11T21:00:00 UTC Different approaches to loss modeling and their impact on risk measure assessment Thomas Bldg
Start DateThu, Oct 11, 2018
4:00 PM
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End DateThu, Oct 11, 2018
5:00 PM
Presented By
Tatjana Miljkovic, Miami University of Ohio
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The "key risk measures" such as Value-at-Risk (VaR) and Conditional Tail Expectation (CTE) are important for capital allocation decisions as they inform actuaries and risk managers about the degree to which a line of business or a company is exposed to a particular aspect of risk. These measures are typically estimated based on the best fitting statistical model selected from a set of models considered for loss modeling. We propose two different approaches for finding this best fitting model. The first approach is based on finite mixtures where the components belong to the same parametric distribution family. The second approach uses composite models where two different distributions are used for the head and tail and these distributions are combined in a smooth way at a specific threshold. In addition, we propose to estimate risk measures taking the model uncertainty risk into account and show how model averaging can be used to obtain the point estimates and their confidence intervals. Two popular data sets on Danish Fire and Norwegian Fire losses are used to illustrate the proposed methods.