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Value at Risk and Expected Shortfall (Tue 18 February 2025)

At its core, financial risk management is concerned with quantifying potential losses to assess the downside of financial endeavors and prepare for worst-case scenarios. Perhaps the two most salient risk measures in the field of risk management are value at risk (VaR) and expected shortfall, also known as conditional value …