Authors

• Henryk Gzyl(henryk.gzyl@iesa.edu.ve)
  Finance Center, IESA
• Silvia Mayoral(smayoral@unav.es)
  University of Navarra

Abstract
We study the relationship between two widely used risk measures, spectral measures and distortion risk measures. In both cases, the risk measure can be thought of as a re-weighting of some initial distribution. We prove that spectral risk measures are equivalent to distorted risk pricing measures, or equivalently, spectral risk functions are equivalent to distortion functions. Besides, we prove that distorted measures are absolutely continuous with respect to the original measure. This allows us to find a link between the risk measures based on relative entropy and spectral risk measures or measures based on distortion risk functions.

Classification JEL:J56, J13.

Keywords:Coherent risk measure, Distortion function, Spectral measures, risk aversion function.Spectral measu

Number of Pages:16

Creation Date:2006-12-01

Number:null/06