BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Drupal iCal API//EN X-WR-CALNAME:Events items teaser X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Toronto BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Toronto X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Toronto BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZNAME:EDT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 DTSTART:20130310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZNAME:EST TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 DTSTART:20131103T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:686d93813e1ef DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20131126T160000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20131126T160000 URL:/statistics-and-actuarial-science/events/watrisq-se minar-steven-kou-national-university-singapore SUMMARY: WatRISQ seminar by Steven Kou\, National University of Singapore CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Summary \n\nROBUST MEASUREMENT OF ECONOMIC TAIL RISK\n\nWe prov e that the only tail risk measure that satisfies a set of\neconomic axioms proposed by Schmeidler (1989\, Econometrica) and a\nstatistical requireme nt called elicitability (i.e. there exists an\nobjective function such tha t a reasonable estimator must be a solution\nof minimizing the expected ob jective function) is the median\nshortfall\, which is the median of the ta il loss distribution and is\nalso the VaR at a high confidence level.\n DTSTAMP:20250708T215409Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR