# Fissler, Tobias, Ziegel, Johanna F, Gneiting, Tilmann. 2017. Elicitability: The quest of comparing risk measure estimates in a meaningful way. 11th International Conference on Computational and Financial Econometrics, London, Großbritannien, 16.12.-18.12.

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## Abstract

In statistical decision-theory, it is common practice to compare competing point forecasts for unknown future events in terms of loss functions. That is, a forecaster issuing the forecast $x$ is assigned the \textit{loss} $L(x,y)$ if $y$ materializes. Considering forecasts for a certain statistical functional such as the mean, the median, or a risk measure, it is crucial that the loss function used is incentive compatible in the sense that the correctly specified forecast for the functional is the unique minimizer of the expected loss. If a functional possesses such an incentive compatible loss function, it is called elicitable, opening the way to meaningful forecast comparison, but also to M-estimation and regression. Many functionals such as expectiles or quantiles are elicitable, whereas other important quantities such as the variance or Expected Shortfall fail to be elicitable. Nevertheless, they can be components of elicitable vector-valued functionals, in particular, both mean and variance, as well as Value-at-Risk and Expected Shortfall are \textit{jointly} elicitable. The latter result opens the possibility to \textit{comparative} backtests aiming at model selection rather than model validation which turns out to be beneficial in the context of quantitative risk management.

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Status of publication Published External Paper presented at an academic conference or symposium English Elicitability: The quest of comparing risk measure estimates in a meaningful way. 11th International Conference on Computational and Financial Econometrics 2017 16.12.-18.12. United Kingdom London http://www.cfenetwork.org/CFE2017/

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Fissler, Tobias (Details)
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Gneiting, Tilmann (Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies, Germany)
Ziegel, Johanna F (University of Bern, Switzerland)