Decomposing Dynamic Risks into Risk Components
Katja Schilling, Daniel Bauer, Marcus C. Christiansen, Alexander Kling
Management Science · 2020 · Volume 66 · Issue 12
Abstract
The decomposition of dynamic risks a company faces into components associated with various sources of risk, such as financial risks, aggregate economic risks, or industry-specific risk drivers, is of significant relevance in view of risk management and product design, particularly in (life) insurance. Nevertheless, although several decomposition approaches have been proposed, no systematic analysis is available. This paper closes this gap in literature by introducing properties for meaningful risk decompositions and demonstrating that proposed approaches violate at least one of these properties. As an alternative, we propose a novel martingale representation theorem ( MRT ) decomposition that relies on martingale representation and show that it satisfies all of the properties. We discuss its calculation and present detailed examples illustrating its applicability. This paper was accepted by Baris Ata, stochastic models and simulation .
Keywords
91B30, 60H07, 60J60, risk decomposition, martingale representation, life insurance
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