Journal of Operational Risk

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Applications of exact extreme value theorem

Mikhail Makarov

ABSTRACT

In this paper we prove that it is sufficient to use Pareto distribution to approximate the tail of a slowly varying heavy-tailed distribution. Several applications of the results are considered.

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