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Tiantian Mao

University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) - Department of Statistics and Finance

96, Jinzhai Road

Hefei, Anhui 230026

China

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1.

Distributionally Robust Optimization under Distorted Expectations

Number of pages: 68 Posted: 16 Apr 2020
Jun Cai, Jonathan Yu-Meng Li and Tiantian Mao
University of Waterloo - Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa and University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) - Department of Statistics and Finance
Downloads 624 (109,339)
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Distributionally robust optimization, distortion risk measure, convex risk measure, convex envelope

2.

Risk Aversion in Regulatory Capital Principles

SIAM Journal on Financial Mathematics, Forthcoming.
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 10 Sep 2015 Last Revised: 26 Dec 2019
Tiantian Mao and Ruodu Wang
University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) - Department of Statistics and Finance and University of Waterloo - Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science
Downloads 348 (214,362)
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regulatory capital, risk aversion, risk sharing, stochastic dominance, diversification

3.

Inf-convolution, Optimal Allocations, and Model Uncertainty for Tail Risk Measures

Mathematics of Operations Research, forthcoming
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 05 Dec 2019 Last Revised: 18 Jan 2022
Fangda Liu, Tiantian Mao, Ruodu Wang and Linxiao Wei
University of Waterloo - Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) - Department of Statistics and Finance, University of Waterloo - Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science and Wuhan University of Technology
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Risk sharing, Pareto optimality, Value-at-Risk, Range-Value-at-Risk, Non-convex optimization

4.

Bayes Risk, Elicitability, and the Expected Shortfall

Mathematical Finance, forthcoming
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 24 Nov 2020 Last Revised: 23 Feb 2022
Paul Embrechts, Tiantian Mao, Qiuqi Wang and Ruodu Wang
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) - Department of Statistics and Finance, Georgia State University - J. Mack Robinson College of Business and University of Waterloo - Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science
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Bayes risk, quantiles, Expected Shortfall, elicitability, entropic risk measures

Distributionally Robust Reinsurance With Value-at-Risk and Conditional Value-at-Risk

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 23 May 2021
Haiyan Liu and Tiantian Mao
Michigan State University - Department of Mathematics and University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) - Department of Statistics and Finance
Downloads 169 (448,643)
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Value-at-Risk, Conditional Value-at-Risk, distributional robust reinsurance, uncertainty, stop-loss

Distributionally Robust Reinsurance with Value-at-Risk and Conditional Value-at-Risk

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 17 Feb 2022
Haiyan Liu and Tiantian Mao
Michigan State University - Department of Mathematics and University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) - Department of Statistics and Finance
Downloads 73 (871,518)
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Value-at-Risk, Conditional Value-at-Risk, distributional robust reinsurance, uncertainty, stop-loss

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Characterizing Fractional Degree Stochastic Dominance by Invariance Laws

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 07 Dec 2022
Tiantian Mao, Ruodu Wang and Lin Zhao
University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) - Department of Statistics and Finance, University of Waterloo - Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science and Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) - Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science (AMSS)
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stochastic dominance, fractional degree, invariance laws, comparative statics, option pricing

7.

Generalized Optimized Certainty Equivalent with Applications in the Rank-dependent Utility Model

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 07 Nov 2020
Qinyu Wu, Tiantian Mao and Taizhong Hu
University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) - Department of Statistics and Finance, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) - Department of Statistics and Finance and University of Science and Technology of China (USTC)
Downloads 209 (366,366)
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Variational Preference; Optimized Certainty Equivalent; Convex Risk Measure; Coherent Risk Measure; Duality; Rank-Dependent Utility

8.

Fractional stochastic dominance in rank-dependent utility and cumulative prospect theory

Journal of Mathematical Economics, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 05 Sep 2020 Last Revised: 13 Sep 2022
Tiantian Mao and Ruodu Wang
University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) - Department of Statistics and Finance and University of Waterloo - Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science
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stochastic dominance, risk aversion, risk measures, rank-dependent utility, cumulative prospect theory

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Risk Measures Derived From a Regulator’s Perspective on the Regulatory Capital Requirements for Insurers

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 22 Feb 2018
Jun Cai and Tiantian Mao
University of Waterloo - Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science and University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) - Department of Statistics and Finance
Downloads 189 (405,402)
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Dutch Risk Measure, TVaR, Expectile, Coherent Risk Measure, Stop-Loss Reinsurance, Kuosuoka Representation, Portfolio Selection

10.

A Model-Free Continuum of Degrees of Risk Aversion

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 30 Jan 2017 Last Revised: 01 Apr 2020
Tiantian Mao and Ruodu Wang
University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) - Department of Statistics and Finance and University of Waterloo - Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science
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risk aversion, risk seeking, stochastic dominance, expected utility, rank-dependent utility, cumulative prospect theory

11.

Quantile-Based Risk Sharing with Heterogeneous Beliefs

Swiss Finance Institute Research Paper No. 17-65
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 06 Dec 2017 Last Revised: 17 Jul 2018
Paul Embrechts, Haiyan Liu, Tiantian Mao and Ruodu Wang
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Michigan State University - Department of Mathematics, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) - Department of Statistics and Finance and University of Waterloo - Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science
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Risk Sharing, Competitive Equilibrium, Belief Heterogeneity, Quantiles, Non-Convexity, Risk Measures

12.

Conditional Value-at-Risk Under Reward-Penalty Mechanism with Applications to Robust Portfolio Management

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 22 Apr 2025
Jun Cai, Tiantian Mao and Zhiqiao Song
University of Waterloo - Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) - Department of Statistics and Finance and University of Waterloo
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Reward-penalty, downside risk, distribution uncertainty, worst-case risk measure, robust portfolio allocation.

13.

A General Wasserstein Framework for Data-driven Distributionally Robust Optimization: Tractability and Applications

Number of pages: 58 Posted: 27 Jul 2022
Jonathan Yu-Meng Li and Tiantian Mao
Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa and University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) - Department of Statistics and Finance
Downloads 125 (576,708)
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Wasserstein distributionally robust optimization, Optimal transport, Coherent risk measures

14.

Diversification Limit of Quantiles Under Dependence Uncertainty

Extremes. Statistical Theory and Applications in Science, Engineering and Economics ISSN: 1386-1999 (Print) 1572-915X (Online). 2016
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 23 Apr 2015 Last Revised: 23 Feb 2016
Valeria Bignozzi, Tiantian Mao, Bin Wang and Ruodu Wang
Università di Milano Bicocca - Dipartimento di Statistica e Metodi Quantitativi, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) - Department of Statistics and Finance, Beijing Technology and Business University - Department of Mathematics and University of Waterloo - Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science
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Value-at-Risk, diversification ratio, extreme value analysis, asymptotics, dependence uncertainty

15.

Stochastic Comparisons of Largest-Order Statistics for Proportional Reversed Hazard Rate Model and Applications

Applied Probability Trust, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 26 Nov 2020
Lu Li, Qinyu Wu and Tiantian Mao
affiliation not provided to SSRN, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) - Department of Statistics and Finance and University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) - Department of Statistics and Finance
Downloads 85 (777,583)
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Reversed hazard rate order; likelihood ratio order; usual stochastic order; exponentiated generalized gamma distribution; exponentiated Pareto distribution; optimal reinsurance

16.

On Generalization and Regularization via Wasserstein Distributionally Robust Optimization

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 22 Dec 2022
Qinyu Wu, Jonathan Yu-Meng Li and Tiantian Mao
University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) - Department of Statistics and Finance, Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa and University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) - Department of Statistics and Finance
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distributionally robust optimization, Wasserstein metrics, finite-sample guarantees, regularization

17.

Higher-Order Stochastic Dominance Under Independent Noise and Characterization of Mean-Variance-Skewness Preference

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 02 Feb 2026 Last Revised: 03 Feb 2026
Wenhan Qian and Tiantian Mao
University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) and University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) - Department of Statistics and Finance
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stochastic dominance, background risk, mean–variance–skewness preference, axiomatic characterization

18.

Robust Evaluation of Quantiles and Expectiles under Moment-based Uncertainty with Applications to Regression

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 25 Feb 2026
Chenling Huang, Xinran Tao and Tiantian Mao
affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN and University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) - Department of Statistics and Finance
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Distributionally robust optimization, Moment-based uncertainty, Quantile, Expectile, Elicitability

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Reconciling Risk-Aversion Paradoxes in the Distribution-Free Newsvendor Problem: Scarf's Rule Meets Dual Utility

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 23 Jul 2025
Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) - Department of Statistics and Finance and University of Ottawa - Telfer School of Management
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Distribution-Free Newsvendor, Risk-Averse Newsvendor, Distributionally Robust Optimization, Distortion Functionals

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Asymptotic probabilities in heterogeneous Gaussian samples

Number of pages: 7 Posted: 09 Jul 2026
Chunxu Zhang, Baiqi Miao and Tiantian Mao
affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN and University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) - Department of Statistics and Finance
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Gaussian maxima, Heterogeneous samples, Extreme-value theory, Winning probability