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Problems of pathological VaR estimates
In this section we comment on various sources of pathological estimates of VaR and finally speculate on a framework for defining and handling pathologically underestimated risk.
Rank defects
Near singularity
Stochastic errors
Bias due to portfolio optimization
Negative variance
Treatment of pathological VaR estimates