Recent challenges in actuarial science

P Embrechts, MV Wüthrich - Annual Review of Statistics and Its …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
For centuries, mathematicians and, later, statisticians, have found natural research and
employment opportunities in the realm of insurance. By definition, insurance offers financial …

Optimal reinsurance designs based on risk measures: A review

J Cai, Y Chi - Statistical Theory and Related Fields, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Reinsurance is an effective way for an insurance company to control its risk. How to design
an optimal reinsurance contract is not only a key topic in actuarial science, but also an …

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 …

Optimal capital allocation principles

J Dhaene, A Tsanakas, EA Valdez… - Journal of Risk and …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
This article develops a unifying framework for allocating the aggregate capital of a financial
firm to its business units. The approach relies on an optimization argument, requiring that the …

[КНИГА][B] Stochastic dominance and applications to finance, risk and economics

S Sriboonchita, WK Wong, S Dhompongsa, HT Nguyen - 2009 - taylorfrancis.com
Drawing from many sources in the literature, Stochastic Dominance and Applications to
Finance, Risk and Economics illustrates how stochastic dominance (SD) can be used as a …

Capital allocation to business units and sub-portfolios: the Euler principle

D Tasche - arxiv preprint arxiv:0708.2542, 2007 - arxiv.org
Despite the fact that the Euler allocation principle has been adopted by many financial
institutions for their internal capital allocation process, a comprehensive description of Euler …

Autoregressive quantile networks for generative modeling

G Ostrovski, W Dabney… - … Conference on Machine …, 2018 - proceedings.mlr.press
We introduce autoregressive implicit quantile networks (AIQN), a fundamentally different
approach to generative modeling than those commonly used, that implicitly captures the …

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 …

Portfolio choice via quantiles

XD He, XY Zhou - Mathematical Finance: An International …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
A portfolio choice model in continuous time is formulated for both complete and incomplete
markets, where the quantile function of the terminal cash flow, instead of the cash flow itself …

Distributional gflownets with quantile flows

D Zhang, L Pan, RTQ Chen, A Courville… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Generative Flow Networks (GFlowNets) are a new family of probabilistic samplers where an
agent learns a stochastic policy for generating complex combinatorial structure through a …