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Expected Shortfall

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Usually expected shortfall is defined as follows (for a distribution with a continuous probability density function  with no lower bound):

 

 

However, it is often also used virtually synonymously with Tail VaR (TVaR), Conditional VaR (CVaR) or Conditional Tail Expectation (CTE) as it mainly differs from these by a scaling factor.

 


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