In this paper we analyze and evaluate a standard approach financial institutions use to calculate their so-called total economic capital. If we consider a business that faces a total random loss S over a given one-year horizon then economic capital is traditionally defined as the difference...

In this paper we examine and summarize properties of several well-known risk measuresthat can be used in the framework of setting solvency capital requirements for a risky business.Special attention is given to the class of (concave) distortion risk measures. We investigatethe relationship...