The advent of the future European prudential framework (Solvency II) and, to a lesser extent, of the phase II of the IFRS dedicated to the insurance contracts, will systematize the use of the Value-at-Risk (VaR) risk measure in insurance. Especially used for financial purposes, the measure of an...

Dans cet article, nous proposons une démarche originale visant à évaluer la capacité des tests usuels de backtesting à discriminer différentes prévisions de Value at Risk (VaR) ne fournissant pas la même évaluation ex-ante du risque. Nos résultats montrent que, pour un même actif, ces...

The objective of this paper is to provide a complete framework to aggregate different quantile and expectile models for obtaining more diversified Value-at-Risk and Expected Shortfall measures, by applying the diversification principle to model risk. Following Taylor (2008) and Gouriéroux and...