Silvana M. Pesenti

University of Toronto

Assistant Professor

700 University Avenue 9F

Toronto, Ontario

Canada

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Scholarly Papers (23)

1.

Portfolio Optimisation within a Wasserstein Ball

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 08 Feb 2021 Last Revised: 21 Jun 2022
Silvana M. Pesenti and Sebastian Jaimungal
University of Toronto and University of Toronto - Department of Statistics
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Portfolio Allocation, Behavioural Finance, Wasserstein Distance, Tail Value-at-Risk, Benchmark

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Scenario Weights for Importance Measurement (SWIM) – An R Package for Sensitivity Analysis

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 10 Feb 2020
University of Toronto, affiliation not provided to SSRN, The Business School (formerly Cass) and Bayes Business School (formerly Cass), City, University of London
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Sensitivity analysis, risk measures, stress testing, sensitivity measures, Kullback-Leibler divergence

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Robust Distortion Risk Measures

Number of pages: 54 Posted: 23 Oct 2020 Last Revised: 13 Mar 2023
Carole Bernard, Silvana M. Pesenti and Steven Vanduffel
Grenoble Ecole de Management, University of Toronto and Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)
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Risk Bounds, Distortion Risk Measures, Wasserstein Distance, Distributional Robustness, Tail Value-at-Risk

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Risk Budgeting Portfolios from Simulations

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 17 Mar 2022 Last Revised: 01 Oct 2024
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), University of Toronto and Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV) - EMAp - School of Applied Mathematics
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Portfolio Allocation, Risk Parity, coherent risk measures, Stochastic Optimisation

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Risk Budgeting Allocation for Dynamic Risk Measures

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 23 May 2023 Last Revised: 30 Oct 2024
University of Toronto, University of Toronto - Department of Statistics, Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV) - EMAp - School of Applied Mathematics and Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV) - EMAp - School of Applied Mathematics
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Dynamic Risk Measures, Portfolio Allocation, Risk Parity, Elicitability, Deep Learning

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Robust Risk-Aware Reinforcement Learning

Number of pages: 13 Posted: 27 Aug 2021 Last Revised: 15 Dec 2021
University of Toronto - Department of Statistics, University of Toronto, University of Toronto and affiliation not provided to SSRN
Downloads 241 (258,043)
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Robust Optimisation, Reinforcement Learning, Risk Measures, Wasserstein Distance, Statistical Arbitrage, Portfolio Optimisation

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Stressing Dynamic Loss Models

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 18 Nov 2022 Last Revised: 03 Oct 2023
Emma Kroell, Silvana M. Pesenti and Sebastian Jaimungal
University of Toronto, University of Toronto and University of Toronto - Department of Statistics
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Reverse Stress Testing, Compound Poisson Processes, KL divergence, Value-at-Risk, Conditional Value-at-Risk

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Cascade Sensitivity Measures

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 13 Nov 2018 Last Revised: 16 Nov 2020
Silvana M. Pesenti, Pietro Millossovich and Andreas Tsanakas
University of Toronto, The Business School (formerly Cass) and Bayes Business School (formerly Cass), City, University of London
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Sensitivity analysis, importance measures, model uncertainty, risk measures, dependence, Rosenblatt transform

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Minimal Kullback-Leibler Divergence for Constrained Levy-Ito Processes

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 18 Jul 2022 Last Revised: 03 Aug 2022
University of Toronto - Department of Statistics, University of Toronto and Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford
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Relative entropy, Kullback-Leibler, Levy-Ito processes, Reverse sensitivity, Risk Management, Model Uncertainty, Cryptocurrency

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Uncertainty Propagation and Dynamic Robust Risk Measures

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 27 Aug 2023 Last Revised: 06 Feb 2024
Marlon Moresco, Mélina Mailhot and Silvana M. Pesenti
Concordia University, Concordia University and University of Toronto
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Dynamic Risk Measures, Time-consistency, Distributional Uncertainty, Wasserstein distance

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Reverse Sensitivity Analysis for Risk Modelling

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 14 Jul 2021 Last Revised: 01 Jun 2022
Silvana M. Pesenti
University of Toronto
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Distortion Risk Measures, Expected Utility, Wasserstein Distance, Robustness and Sensitivity Analysis, Model Uncertainty

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Optimizing Distortion Riskmetrics With Distributional Uncertainty

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 06 Jan 2021 Last Revised: 25 Feb 2022
Silvana M. Pesenti, Qiuqi Wang and Ruodu Wang
University of Toronto, Georgia State University - J. Mack Robinson College of Business and University of Waterloo - Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science
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risk measures; deviation measures, distributionally robust optimization, convexification, conditional expectation

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Reverse Sensitivity Testing: What Does It Take to Break the Model?

European Journal of Operational Research, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 03 Nov 2018
Silvana M. Pesenti, Pietro Millossovich and Andreas Tsanakas
University of Toronto, The Business School (formerly Cass) and Bayes Business School (formerly Cass), City, University of London
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Robustness and Sensitivity Analysis, Risk Management, Value-at-Risk, Expected Shortfall, Stress Testing

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Risk Contributions of Lambda Quantiles

Quantitative Finance 22(10):1-21
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 08 Jul 2021 Last Revised: 11 Nov 2022
Akif Ince, Ilaria Peri and Silvana M. Pesenti
Birkbeck, University of London, University of London - Economics, Mathematics and Statistics and University of Toronto
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Lambda Quantiles, Capital Allocation, Risk Contribution, Lambda Value-at-Risk, Euler Allocation

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Optimal Robust Reinsurance with Multiple Insurers

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 23 Aug 2023 Last Revised: 02 Oct 2024
Emma Kroell, Sebastian Jaimungal and Silvana M. Pesenti
University of Toronto, University of Toronto - Department of Statistics and University of Toronto
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Stackelberg game, reinsurance, barycentre, Kullback-Leibler divergence, excess-of-loss reinsurance, proportional reinsurance

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Robustness Regions for Measures of Risk Aggregation

Dependence Modelling (Forthcoming)
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 08 Oct 2016 Last Revised: 22 Nov 2016
Silvana M. Pesenti, Pietro Millossovich and Andreas Tsanakas
University of Toronto, The Business School (formerly Cass) and Bayes Business School (formerly Cass), City, University of London
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Convex risk measures, Aggregation, Value-at-Risk, Robustness, Continuity

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Sensitivity Measures Based on Scoring Functions

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 28 Mar 2022 Last Revised: 24 Oct 2022
Tobias Fissler and Silvana M. Pesenti
Vienna University of Economics and Business and University of Toronto
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Consistency; Elicitability; Expected Shortfall; Information value; Value-at-Risk

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Euler Allocations in the Presence of Non-Linear Reinsurance: Comment on Major (2018)

Insurance: Mathematics and Economics, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 6 Posted: 10 Oct 2018
Silvana M. Pesenti, Andreas Tsanakas and Pietro Millossovich
University of Toronto, Bayes Business School (formerly Cass), City, University of London and The Business School (formerly Cass)
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Distortion Risk Measures, Capital Allocation, Euler Allocation, Aumann-Shapley, Reinsurance, Aggregation

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Optimal Transport Divergences Induced by Scoring Functions

Number of pages: 16 Posted: 13 Dec 2023 Last Revised: 11 Apr 2024
Silvana M. Pesenti and Steven Vanduffel
University of Toronto and Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)
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Optimal transport, risk measures, scoring functions, elicitability, coupling, Wasserstein distance, asymmetric Optimal Transport

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Robust Elicitable Functionals

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 10 Oct 2024
Kathleen E. Miao and Silvana M. Pesenti
University of Toronto and University of Toronto
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Elicitability, Kullback-Leibler divergence, Model Uncertainty, Risk Measures

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Differential Quantile-Based Sensitivity in Discontinuous Models

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 07 Nov 2023
Silvana M. Pesenti, Pietro Millossovich and Andreas Tsanakas
University of Toronto, The Business School (formerly Cass) and Bayes Business School (formerly Cass), City, University of London
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Sensitivity analysis, importance measurement, differential sensitivity measures, simulation, risk measures, credit risk

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Kullback-Leibler Barycentre of Stochastic Processes 

Number of pages: 20 Posted: 11 Jul 2024
Sebastian Jaimungal and Silvana M. Pesenti
University of Toronto - Department of Statistics and University of Toronto
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Mixtures of Experts, Kullback-Leibler, Barycentre, Model Combination, Ensemble Model, Deep learning, Elicitability, Volatility Smiles

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Optimal payoff under Bregman-Wasserstein divergence constraints

Number of pages: 29 Last Revised: 27 Nov 2024
Silvana M. Pesenti, Steven Vanduffel, Yang Yang and Jing Yao
University of Toronto, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Soochow University and Soochow University
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Portfolio choice, Preferences, Expected Utility, Hoeffding-Fréchet bounds, Bregman Divergence, Wasserstein distance, cost-efficiency