Risk Allocation under Liquidity Constraints
25.04.2014
Péter Csóka, P. Jean-Jacques Herings
C71, G10
Market Microstructure, Coherent Measures of Risk, Market Liquidity, Portfolio Performance Evaluation, Risk Capital Allocation, Totally Balanced Games
Climate Change and Sustainable Development
Carlo Carraro
Risk allocation games are cooperative games that are used to attribute the risk of a financial entity to its divisions. In this paper, we extend the literature on risk allocation games by incorporating liquidity considerations. A liquidity policy specifies state-dependent liquidity requirements that a portfolio should obey. To comply with the liquidity policy, a financial entity may have to liquidate part of its assets, which is costly. The definition of a risk allocation game under liquidity constraints is not straight- forward, since the presence of a liquidity policy leads to externalities. We argue that the standard worst case approach should not be used here and present an alternative definition. We show that the resulting class of transferable utility games coincides with the class of totally balanced games. It follows from our results that also when taking liquidity considerations into account there is always a stable way to allocate risk.
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Suggested citation: Csóka, P., P. J.-J. Herings, (2014), ‘Risk Allocation under Liquidity Constraints’, Nota di Lavoro 47.2014, Milan, Italy: Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei.