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Building bridges between Mathematics, Insurance and Finance: An interview with Paul Embrechts

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  • Durante Fabrizio

    (Faculty of Economics & Management, Free University of Bozen/Bolzano, Italy)

  • Puccetti Giovanni

    (Department of Economics, Management and Quantitative Methods, University of Milan, Italy)

  • Scherer Matthias

    (Department of Mathematical Finance, Technische Universität München, Germany)

Abstract

Paul Embrechts is Professor of Mathematics at the ETH Zurich specializing in Actuarial Mathematics and Quantitative Risk Management. Previous academic positions include the Universities of Leuven, Limburg and London (Imperial College). Dr. Embrechts has held visiting professorships at several universities, including the Scuola Normale in Pisa (Cattedra Galileiana), the London School of Economics (Centennial Professor of Finance), the University of Vienna, Paris 1 (Panthéon-Sorbonne), theNationalUniversity of Singapore, KyotoUniversity,was Visiting Man Chair 2014 at the Oxford-Man Institute of Oxford University and has an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Waterloo, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, and the Université Catholique de Louvain. He is an Elected Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and the American Statistical Association, Honorary Fellow of the Institute and the Faculty of Actuaries, Actuary-SAA, Member Honoris Causa of the Belgian Institute of Actuaries and is on the editorial board of numerous scientific journals.He belongs to various national and international research and academic advisory committees. He co-authored the influential books Modelling of Extremal Events for Insurance and Finance, Springer, 1997 [8] andQuantitative RiskManagement: Concepts, Techniques and Tools, Princeton UP, 2005, 2015 [14] and published over 180 scientific papers. Dr. Embrechts consults on issues in Quantitative Risk Management for financial institutions, insurance companies and international regulatory authorities.

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  • Durante Fabrizio & Puccetti Giovanni & Scherer Matthias, 2015. "Building bridges between Mathematics, Insurance and Finance: An interview with Paul Embrechts," Dependence Modeling, De Gruyter, vol. 3(1), pages 1-12, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:vrs:demode:v:3:y:2015:i:1:p:12:n:2
    DOI: 10.1515/demo-2015-0002
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    1. Alexander J. McNeil & Rüdiger Frey & Paul Embrechts, 2015. "Quantitative Risk Management: Concepts, Techniques and Tools Revised edition," Economics Books, Princeton University Press, edition 2, number 10496.
    2. De Vylder, F., 1982. "Best upper bounds for integrals with respect to measures allowed to vary under conical and integral constraints," Insurance: Mathematics and Economics, Elsevier, vol. 1(2), pages 109-130, April.
    3. Donnelly, Catherine & Embrechts, Paul, 2010. "The Devil is in the Tails: Actuarial Mathematics and the Subprime Mortgage Crisis," ASTIN Bulletin, Cambridge University Press, vol. 40(1), pages 1-33, May.
    4. Paul Embrechts, 2009. "Copulas: A Personal View," Journal of Risk & Insurance, The American Risk and Insurance Association, vol. 76(3), pages 639-650, September.
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    1. Christian Genest & Johanna G. Nešlehová, 2020. "A Conversation With Paul Embrechts," International Statistical Review, International Statistical Institute, vol. 88(3), pages 521-547, December.
    2. Genest Christian & Scherer Matthias, 2020. "Insurance applications of dependence modeling: An interview with Edward (Jed) Frees," Dependence Modeling, De Gruyter, vol. 8(1), pages 93-106, January.
    3. Genest Christian & Scherer Matthias, 2020. "Insurance applications of dependence modeling: An interview with Edward (Jed) Frees," Dependence Modeling, De Gruyter, vol. 8(1), pages 93-106, January.
    4. Puccetti Giovanni & Scherer Matthias, 2018. "Copulas, credit portfolios, and the broken heart syndrome," Dependence Modeling, De Gruyter, vol. 6(1), pages 114-130, June.

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