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Expected Shortfall (CVaR)

Also called: cvar, conditional value at risk, expected tail loss

The average loss in the bad cases beyond the Value-at-Risk cutoff — it answers 'if things go worse than VaR, how bad on average?'. Because it looks into the tail, regulators increasingly prefer it to VaR.

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