Elicitability and Identifiability of Systemic Risk Measures

Abstract

Identification and scoring functions are statistical tools to assess the calibration and the relative performance of risk measure estimates, e.g., in backtesting. A risk measures is called identifiable (elicitable) it it admits a strict identification function (strictly consistent scoring function). We consider measures of systemic risk introduced in Feinstein, Rudloff and Weber (2017). Since these are set-valued, we work within the theoretical framework of Fissler, Hlavinov\'a and Rudloff (2019) for forecast evaluation of set-valued functionals. We construct oriented selective identification functions, which induce a mixture representation of (strictly) consistent scoring functions. Their applicability is demonstrated with a comprehensive simulation study.