## The Annals of Applied Probability

### Robust bounds in multivariate extremes

#### Abstract

Extreme value theory provides an asymptotically justified framework for estimation of exceedance probabilities in regions where few or no observations are available. For multivariate tail estimation, the strength of extremal dependence is crucial and it is typically modeled by a parametric family of spectral distributions. In this work, we provide asymptotic bounds on exceedance probabilities that are robust against misspecification of the extremal dependence model. They arise from optimizing the statistic of interest over all dependence models within some neighborhood of the reference model. A certain relaxation of these bounds yields surprisingly simple and explicit expressions, which we propose to use in applications. We show the effectiveness of the robust approach compared to classical confidence bounds when the model is misspecified. The results are further applied to quantify the effect of model uncertainty on the Value-at-Risk of a financial portfolio.

#### Article information

Source
Ann. Appl. Probab., Volume 27, Number 6 (2017), 3706-3734.

Dates
Revised: February 2017
First available in Project Euclid: 15 December 2017

Permanent link to this document
https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.aoap/1513328712

Digital Object Identifier
doi:10.1214/17-AAP1294

Mathematical Reviews number (MathSciNet)
MR3737936

Zentralblatt MATH identifier
06848277

#### Citation

Engelke, Sebastian; Ivanovs, Jevgenijs. Robust bounds in multivariate extremes. Ann. Appl. Probab. 27 (2017), no. 6, 3706--3734. doi:10.1214/17-AAP1294. https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.aoap/1513328712

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