Abstract
Given a functional defined on a nonempty subset of an Archimedean Riesz space with unit, necessary and sufficient conditions are obtained for the existence of a (convex or concave) niveloid that extends the functional to the entire space. In the language of mathematical finance, this problem is equivalent to the one of verifying if the policy adopted by a regulator is consistent with monetary risk measurement, when only partial information is available.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 343-360 |
| Number of pages | 18 |
| Journal | Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications |
| Volume | 413 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - May 1 2014 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:We thank an associate editor and two anonymous referees for very useful feedback, Giulia Brancaccio and Veronica Cappelli for helpful suggestions, Hans Föllmer and Alex Schied for encouragement, the participants of the Bachelier Course Robust Decision Theory and Risk Measurement (IHP Paris, 2012) for stimulating discussions. The financial support of ERC (Advanced Grant BRSCDP-TEA) and of the AXA-Bocconi Chair in Risk is gratefully acknowledged.
Keywords
- Daniell-Stone Theorem
- Extension theorems
- Risk measures
- Variational preferences