Frameworks and results in distributionally robust optimization

H Rahimian, S Mehrotra - Open Journal of Mathematical Optimization, 2022 - numdam.org
The concepts of risk aversion, chance-constrained optimization, and robust optimization
have developed significantly over the last decade. The statistical learning community has …

Mathematical risk analysis

L Rüschendorf - Springer Ser. Oper. Res. Financ. Eng. Springer …, 2013 - Springer
This book gives an introduction to basic concepts and methods in mathematical risk
analysis, in particular to those parts of risk theory which are of particular relevance in finance …

Model uncertainty and VaR aggregation

P Embrechts, G Puccetti, L Rüschendorf - Journal of Banking & Finance, 2013 - Elsevier
Despite well-known shortcomings as a risk measure, Value-at-Risk (VaR) is still the industry
and regulatory standard for the calculation of risk capital in banking and insurance. This …

An academic response to Basel 3.5

P Embrechts, G Puccetti, L Rüschendorf, R Wang… - Risks, 2014 - mdpi.com
Recent crises in the financial industry have shown weaknesses in the modeling of Risk-
Weighted Assets (RWAs). Relatively minor model changes may lead to substantial changes …

A review on ambiguity in stochastic portfolio optimization

GC Pflug, M Pohl - Set-Valued and Variational Analysis, 2018 - Springer
In mean-risk portfolio optimization, it is typically assumed that the assets follow a known
distribution P 0, which is estimated from observed data. Aiming at an investment strategy …

Combining p-values via averaging

V Vovk, R Wang - Biometrika, 2020 - academic.oup.com
This paper proposes general methods for the problem of multiple testing of a single
hypothesis, with a standard goal of combining a number of-values without making any …

Aggregation-robustness and model uncertainty of regulatory risk measures

P Embrechts, B Wang, R Wang - Finance and Stochastics, 2015 - Springer
Research related to aggregation, robustness and model uncertainty of regulatory risk
measures, for instance, value-at-risk (VaR) and expected shortfall (ES), is of fundamental …

Bounds for the sum of dependent risks and worst Value-at-Risk with monotone marginal densities

R Wang, L Peng, J Yang - Finance and Stochastics, 2013 - Springer
In quantitative risk management, it is important and challenging to find sharp bounds for the
distribution of the sum of dependent risks with given marginal distributions, but an …

Risk aggregation with dependence uncertainty

C Bernard, X Jiang, R Wang - Insurance: Mathematics and Economics, 2014 - Elsevier
Risk aggregation with dependence uncertainty refers to the sum of individual risks with
known marginal distributions and unspecified dependence structure. We introduce the …

Extremal dependence concepts

G Puccetti, R Wang - 2015 - projecteuclid.org
The probabilistic characterization of the relationship between two or more random variables
calls for a notion of dependence. Dependence modeling leads to mathematical and …