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Risk Measures in Optimization Problems via Empirical Estimates

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  • Vlasta Kaňková

    (Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Institute of Information Theory and Automation, Department of Econometrics, Prague, Czech Republic)

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Economic and financial activities are often influenced simultaneously by a decision parameter and a random factor. Since mostly it is necessary to determine the decision parameter without knowledge of the realization of the random element, deterministic optimization problems depending on a probability measure often correspond to such situations. In applications the problem has to be very often solved on the data basis. It means that usually the “underlying” probability measure is replaced by empirical one. Great effort has been made to investigate properties of the corresponding (empirical) estimates; mostly under assumptions of “thin” tails and a linear dependence on the probability measure. The aim of this paper is to focus on the cases when these assumptions are not fulfilled. This happens usually just in economic and financial applications (see, e.g., Mandelbort 2003; Pflug and Römisch 2007; Rachev and Römisch 2002; Shiryaev 1999).

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  • Vlasta Kaňková, 2013. "Risk Measures in Optimization Problems via Empirical Estimates," Czech Economic Review, Charles University Prague, Faculty of Social Sciences, Institute of Economic Studies, vol. 7(3), pages 162-177, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:fau:aucocz:au2013_162
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    1. Vlasta Kaňková, 2024. "Stochastic optimization problems with nonlinear dependence on a probability measure via the Wasserstein metric," Journal of Global Optimization, Springer, vol. 90(3), pages 593-617, November.

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    Keywords

    Static stochastic optimization problems; linear and nonlinear dependence; risk measures; thin and heavy tails; Wasserstein metric; L1 norm; empirical distribution function;
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    • C44 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods: Special Topics - - - Operations Research; Statistical Decision Theory

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