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Surplus-Invariant, Law-Invariant, and Conic Acceptance Sets Must Be the Sets Induced by Value at Risk

by Xuedong He, Xianhua Peng

ARTICLE | Operations Research | No. 5, Vol. 66, 2018


Abstract


The regulator is interested in proposing a capital adequacy test by specifying an acceptance set for firms' capital positions at the end of a given period. This set needs to be surplus-invariant, i.e., not to depend on the surplus of firms' shareholders, because the test means to protect firms' liability holders. We prove that any surplus-invariant, law-invariant, and conic acceptance set must be the set of capital positions whose value-at-risk at a given level is less than zero. The result still holds if we replace conicity with numeraire-invariance, a property stipulating that whether a firm passes the test should not depend on the currency used to denominate its assets.
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