Characterization of the minimal penalty of a convex risk measure with applications to Levy processes

Abstract

The minimality of the penalization function associated with a convex risk measure is analyzed in this paper. First, in a general static framework, we provide necessary and sufficient conditions for a penalty function defined in a convex and closed subset of the absolutely continuous measures with respect to some reference measure $\mathbb{P}$ to be minimal. When the probability space supports a L\'{e}vy process, we establish results that guarantee the minimality property of a penalty function described in terms of the coefficients associated with the density processes. The set of densities processes is described and the convergence of its quadratic variation is analyzed.