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What is Sub-additivity

What is Sub-additivity?

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Sub-additivity says that it can only be non-negative. Lack of sub-additivity in a risk measure and that can be exploited can lead to a form of regulatory arbitrage. All a bank has to do is create subsidiary firms, in a reverse form of the above example, to save regulatory capital.

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