Expected shortfall (ES) is a
risk measure—a concept used in the field of financial risk measurement to evaluate the
market risk or
credit risk of a portfolio. The "expected shortfall at q% level" is the expected return on the portfolio in the worst
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% of cases. ES is an alternative to
Value at Risk that is more sensitive to the shape of the loss distribution in the tail of the distribution.