Cash-subadditive risk measures without quasi-convexity

Abstract

In the literature on risk measures, cash subadditivity was proposed to replace cash additivity, motivated by the presence of stochastic or ambiguous interest rates and defaultable contingent claims. Cash subadditivity has been traditionally studied together with quasi-convexity, in a way similar to cash additivity with convexity. In this paper, we study cash-subadditive risk measures without quasi-convexity. One of our major results is that a general cash-subadditive risk measure can be represented as the lower envelope of a family of quasi-convex and cash-subadditive risk measures. Representation results of cash-subadditive risk measures with some additional properties are also examined. The notion of quasi-star-shapedness, which is a natural analogue of star-shapedness, is introduced, and we obtain a corresponding representation result via the lower envelope of normalized, quasi-convex and cash-subadditive risk measures.