What is the intuition behind spectral risk measures, and why does Expected Shortfall fit in that family?
I keep seeing spectral risk measures described abstractly as weighted averages of quantiles, but that has not clicked yet. I understand VaR and ES better than the general family, so I want to use those familiar examples to understand what the larger concept is doing.
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