Carole Bernard

Grenoble Ecole de Management

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12, rue Pierre Sémard

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Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)

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1.

Pricing Timer Options

Journal of Computational Finance, Vol. 15, No. 1, 2011
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 19 May 2010 Last Revised: 24 Jan 2012
Carole Bernard and Zhenyu Cui
Grenoble Ecole de Management and Stevens Institute of Technology - School of Business
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Stochastic volatility, Volatility derivative, timer option, quadratic variation, correlation, Heston model, Hull and White model.

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Locally-Capped Investment Products and the Retail Investor

Journal of Derivatives, Vol. 18, No. 4, pp. 72-88, 2011
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 21 May 2019 Last Revised: 12 Aug 2019
Carole Bernard, Phelim P. Boyle and Will Gornall
Grenoble Ecole de Management, Wilfrid Laurier University - School of Business & Economics and University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business
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Household finance, structured products, retail investor, locally-capped contracts

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Explicit Representation of Cost-Efficient Strategies

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Explicit Representation of Cost-Efficient Strategies

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 30 Jul 2010 Last Revised: 18 Apr 2013
Carole Bernard, Phelim P. Boyle and Steven Vanduffel
Grenoble Ecole de Management, Wilfrid Laurier University - School of Business & Economics and Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)
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Law-invariant increasing preferences, Stochastic Dominance, Expected Utility, State-dependent preferences, Copulas

Explicit Representation of Cost-Efficient Strategies

Paris December 2010 Finance Meeting EUROFIDAI - AFFI
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 22 Oct 2010
Carole Bernard and Phelim P. Boyle
Grenoble Ecole de Management and Wilfrid Laurier University - School of Business & Economics
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Stochastic Dominance, Efficiency Cost, Expected Utility Optimization, Portfolio Choice

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Monte Carlo Methods for Pricing Discrete Parisian Options

European Journal of Finance, Vol. 17, Issue 3, 2011
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 11 Jul 2009 Last Revised: 24 Jan 2012
Carole Bernard and Phelim P. Boyle
Grenoble Ecole de Management and Wilfrid Laurier University - School of Business & Economics
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Parisian Options, Monte Carlo, Discrete Monitoring, Control Variate, Early Exercise, Executive Stock Options, Mr. Thain.

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Statistical Assessments of Systemic Risk Measures

Number of pages: 19 Posted: 12 May 2012
Carole Bernard, Eike Brechmann and Claudia Czado
Grenoble Ecole de Management, Technische Universität München (TUM) and Technische Universität München (TUM) - Department of Mathematics
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Static Portfolio Choice Under Cumulative Prospect Theory

Mathematics and Financial Economics, Vol. 2, No. 4, March, 2010
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 30 Apr 2009 Last Revised: 19 Jul 2010
Carole Bernard and Mario Ghossoub
Grenoble Ecole de Management and University of Waterloo
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Cumulative Prospect Theory, Portfolio Choice, Behavioral Finance, Omega Measure

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A New Approach to Assessing Model Risk in High Dimensions

Journal of Banking and Finance, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 10 Feb 2014 Last Revised: 03 Apr 2015
Carole Bernard and Steven Vanduffel
Grenoble Ecole de Management and Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)
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Model Risk, VaR, TVaR, variance, tail dependence, tail correlation

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Value-at-Risk Bounds with Variance Constraints

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 18 Oct 2013 Last Revised: 10 Jul 2015
Carole Bernard, Ludger Rüschendorf and Steven Vanduffel
Grenoble Ecole de Management, University of Freiburg and Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)
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Value-at-Risk, Convex order, Comonotonicity, Model risk, Rearrangement algorithm

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Option-Implied Dependence and Correlation Risk Premium

Number of pages: 78 Posted: 19 Jun 2020 Last Revised: 16 Aug 2023
Oleg Bondarenko and Carole Bernard
University of Illinois at Chicago - Department of Finance and Grenoble Ecole de Management
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Model-Free Dependence, Implied Correlations, Forward-Looking Dependence, Down and up Correlation, Correlation Risk Premium

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Pricing Derivatives With Barriers in a Stochastic Interest Rate Environment

Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Vol. 32, No. 9, pp. 2903-2938, September 2008
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 26 Mar 2005 Last Revised: 14 Apr 2010
Carole Bernard, Olivier Le Courtois and Francois Quittard-Pinon
Grenoble Ecole de Management, EM Lyon (Ecole de Management de Lyon) - Department of Economics, Finance, Control and EMLYON Business School
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Change of Numéraire, HJM model, Barrier Option, Markovian Approximation

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Optimal Insurance Design Under Rank-Dependent Expected Utility

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 11 Jul 2011 Last Revised: 11 Dec 2012
Carole Bernard, Xue Dong He, Jia‐An Yan and Xun Yu Zhou
Grenoble Ecole de Management, The Chinese University of Hong Kong - Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) - Academy of Mathematics and Systems Sciences and The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) - Department of Systems Engineering & Engineering Management
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optimal insurance design, rank-dependent expected utility, inverse-S shaped probability distortion, indemnity, quantile formulation, deductible

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Measuring Portfolio Risk Under Partial Dependence Information

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 09 Mar 2014 Last Revised: 02 Nov 2017
Carole Bernard, Michel Denuit and Steven Vanduffel
Grenoble Ecole de Management, Catholic University of Louvain and Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)
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Stochastic dominance, Moment space, s-convex order, Value-at-Risk

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Improving the Design of Financial Products in a Multidimensional Black-Scholes Market

North American Actuarial Journal, Vol. 15, No.1, pp. 77-96
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 14 Apr 2010 Last Revised: 07 Dec 2011
Carole Bernard, Mateusz Maj and Steven Vanduffel
Grenoble Ecole de Management, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) - Faculty of Economic, Social and Political Sciences and Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)
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cost-efficiency, optimal design, Black-Scholes

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Impact of Counterparty Risk on the Reinsurance Market

North American Actuarial Journal, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 07 Jan 2011 Last Revised: 24 Jan 2012
Carole Bernard and Michael Ludkovski
Grenoble Ecole de Management and University of California, Santa Barbara
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Optimal Insurance Design, Multiplicative background risk, Counterparty risk, Reinsurance market, Stop-loss Insurance

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Fixed-Strike European Arithmetic Asian Options: A Comment

Number of pages: 11 Posted: 29 Sep 2009
Carole Bernard, Phelim P. Boyle and Will Gornall
Grenoble Ecole de Management, Wilfrid Laurier University - School of Business & Economics and University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business
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Asian options, Tse and Mok formula, pricing

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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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A New Procedure for Pricing Parisian Options

Journal of Derivatives, Vol. 12, No. 4, 2005
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 13 Feb 2012 Last Revised: 12 Jan 2014
Carole Bernard, Olivier Le Courtois and Francois Quittard-Pinon
Grenoble Ecole de Management, EM Lyon (Ecole de Management de Lyon) - Department of Economics, Finance, Control and EMLYON Business School
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Risk Management of Policyholder Behavior in Equity Linked Life Insurance

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 08 Feb 2015
Anne MacKay, Maciej Augustyniak, Carole Bernard and Mary R. Hardy
University of Waterloo, University of Montreal - Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Grenoble Ecole de Management and University of Waterloo
Downloads 329 (178,576)
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Variable annuities, pricing, GMMB, dynamic hedging, surrender behavior

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Risk Bounds for Factor Models

Finance and Stochastics, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 03 Mar 2015 Last Revised: 09 Feb 2017
Carole Bernard, Ludger Rüschendorf, Steven Vanduffel and Ruodu Wang
Grenoble Ecole de Management, University of Freiburg, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) and University of Waterloo - Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science
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factor models, risk aggregation, dependence uncertainty, Value-at-Risk

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A Practical Approach to Quantitative Model Risk Assessment

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 27 Apr 2020 Last Revised: 01 Mar 2023
Carole Bernard, Rodrigue Kazzi and Steven Vanduffel
Grenoble Ecole de Management, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) and Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)
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Value-at-Risk, Risk bounds, Model risk contribution, Model risk capital requirements, Parameter risk, Credibility factors, Generalized Pareto distribution

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Optimal Strategies Under Omega Ratio

Economics Letters, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 05 Apr 2017 Last Revised: 28 Oct 2019
Carole Bernard, Steven Vanduffel and Jiang Ye
Grenoble Ecole de Management, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) and Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)
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Portfolio choice, Omega ratio, Ill-posedness

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Optimal Portfolios Under Worst-Case Scenarios

Forthcoming in Quantitative Finance
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 04 Nov 2013
Carole Bernard, Jit Seng Chen and Steven Vanduffel
Grenoble Ecole de Management, Independent and Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)
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Behavioral Portfolio Selection, State-dependent preferences, Risk Diversification, Cost-efficiency, Path-dependent Strategies, Growth Optimal Portfolio

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Note on 'Improved Frechet Bounds and Model-Free Pricing of Multi-Asset Options' by Tankov (2011)

Journal of Applied Probability, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 13 Feb 2012 Last Revised: 11 May 2012
Carole Bernard, Xiao Jiang and Steven Vanduffel
Grenoble Ecole de Management, University of Waterloo and Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)
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bounds, copulas, Frechet Hoeffding bounds, quasi-copula, optimal investment, state dependent constraints

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Prices and Asymptotics for Discrete Variance Swaps

Applied Mathematical Finance, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 23 Jul 2012 Last Revised: 19 Jun 2013
Carole Bernard and Zhenyu Cui
Grenoble Ecole de Management and Stevens Institute of Technology - School of Business
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Discrete variance swaps, Heston model, Hull-White model, Schoebel-Zhu model

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Nearly Exact Option Price Simulation Using Characteristic Functions

International Journal of Theoretical and Applied Finance, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 23 Jul 2012
Carole Bernard, Zhenyu Cui and Don McLeish
Grenoble Ecole de Management, Stevens Institute of Technology - School of Business and University of Waterloo
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Characteristic function, Monte Carlo, Option pricing, Parisian option, Heston model

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A Note on Exchange Options Under Stochastic Interest Rates

Number of pages: 7 Posted: 17 Jun 2010
Carole Bernard and Zhenyu Cui
Grenoble Ecole de Management and Stevens Institute of Technology - School of Business
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Exchange options, Stochastic interest rates

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Rearrangement Algorithm and Maximum Entropy

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 23 Dec 2015 Last Revised: 17 Aug 2017
Carole Bernard, Oleg Bondarenko and Steven Vanduffel
Grenoble Ecole de Management, University of Illinois at Chicago - Department of Finance and Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)
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Entropy, Block Rearrangement Algorithm, Inferring dependence, Maximum determinant

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Mean-Variance Optimal Portfolios in the Presence of a Benchmark with Applications to Fraud Detection

Forthcoming in European Journal of Operational Research
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 30 Sep 2012 Last Revised: 23 Jun 2013
Carole Bernard and Steven Vanduffel
Grenoble Ecole de Management and Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)
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Mean-variance, Fraud detection, Optimal portfolio, Correlation constraints

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Risk Sharing & Pricing in the Reinsurance Market

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 24 Dec 2012
Carole Bernard
Grenoble Ecole de Management
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reinsurance market, optimal design, insurance policies, intermediation, risk management, risk sharing, basis risk, moral hazard, securitization, reinsurance premium

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Financial Bounds for Insurance Claims

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Financial Bounds for Insurance Claims

Paris December 2011 Finance Meeting EUROFIDAI - AFFI
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 13 Oct 2011 Last Revised: 11 Feb 2012
Carole Bernard and Steven Vanduffel
Grenoble Ecole de Management and Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)
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Cost-efficiency, Jensen’s inequality, Fréchet bounds, Indifference pricing

Financial Bounds for Insurance Claims

Journal of Risk and Insurance, Forthcoming.
Posted: 23 Aug 2011 Last Revised: 22 Nov 2014
Carole Bernard and Steven Vanduffel
Grenoble Ecole de Management and Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)

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Optimal Portfolios Under a Correlation Constraint

Forthcoming, Quantitative Finance
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 25 May 2016 Last Revised: 08 Sep 2020
Carole Bernard, Dries Cornilly and Steven Vanduffel
Grenoble Ecole de Management, Asteria Investment Managers and Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)
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Optimal portfolio selection, correlation constraint, Sharpe ratio, Mean-variance, Capital at Risk

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Smart Contract Tontines

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 21 Mar 2023 Last Revised: 13 Jul 2024
Mohamad Hassan Abou Daya and Carole Bernard
Grenoble Ecole de Management and Grenoble Ecole de Management
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Tontines, Smart contract, Contract opacity, Blockchain. JEL classification: G11, G22

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When Do Two- or Three-Fund Separation Theorems Hold?

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 20 Nov 2020
Carole Bernard, Corrado De Vecchi and Steven Vanduffel
Grenoble Ecole de Management, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) and Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)
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Two-Fund Theorem, Three-Fund Theorem, Law-Invariant Preferences, Stochastic Dominance, Investment Analysis, Decision Analysis

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Protection of a Company Issuing a Certain Class of Participating Policies in a Complete Market Framework

North American Actuarial Journal, Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 131-149, 2010
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 17 Jan 2006 Last Revised: 15 Aug 2015
Carole Bernard, Olivier Le Courtois and Francois Quittard-Pinon
Grenoble Ecole de Management, EM Lyon (Ecole de Management de Lyon) - Department of Economics, Finance, Control and EMLYON Business School
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Participating Contracts, Safety Loading, Default Risk, Interest Rate Risk, Market Value, Fair Value Principle, Premium Principle, Equity Default Swap

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Development and Pricing of a New Participating Contract

North American Actuarial Journal, Vol. 10, No. 4, pp. 179-195, 2006
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 30 Jan 2006 Last Revised: 01 Mar 2010
Carole Bernard, Olivier Le Courtois and Francois Quittard-Pinon
Grenoble Ecole de Management, EM Lyon (Ecole de Management de Lyon) - Department of Economics, Finance, Control and EMLYON Business School
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Participating Life Insurance Policies, Contingent Claims Valuation, Default Risk, Stochastic Interest Rates, Dubins-Schwarz theorem

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How Robust Is the Value-at-Risk of Credit Risk Portfolios?

Forthcoming, European Journal of Finance
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 27 Feb 2015 Last Revised: 02 Nov 2017
Carole Bernard, Ludger Rüschendorf, Steven Vanduffel and Jing Yao
Grenoble Ecole de Management, University of Freiburg, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) and Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)
Downloads 192 (303,703)
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Rearrangement algorithm, Moment bounds, Value-at-Risk, Credit risk portfolio. Minimum variance

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A Model-Free Approach to Multivariate Option Pricing

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 13 Nov 2019
Carole Bernard, Oleg Bondarenko and Steven Vanduffel
Grenoble Ecole de Management, University of Illinois at Chicago - Department of Finance and Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)
Downloads 172 (335,071)
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Multivariate Option Pricing, Rearrangement Algorithm, Risk-Neutral Joint Distribution, Option-Implied Dependence, Entropy, Model Uncertainty

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The Impact of Correlation on (Range) Value-at-Risk

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 14 Dec 2021
Carole Bernard, Corrado De Vecchi and Steven Vanduffel
Grenoble Ecole de Management, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) and Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)
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Risk bounds, Value-at-Risk, Pearson correlation, Spearman's rho, Kendall's tau

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Implied Value-at-Risk and Model-Free Simulation

Number of pages: 22 Posted: 08 Nov 2021
Carole Bernard, Andrea Perchiazzo and Steven Vanduffel
Grenoble Ecole de Management, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) and Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)
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implied Value-at-Risk, model-free simulation under risk-neutral probability, exact simulation, stochastic volatility models, SABR model, Heston model.

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State-Dependent Fees for Variable Annuity Guarantees

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 30 Apr 2013 Last Revised: 27 Jul 2013
Carole Bernard, Mary R. Hardy and Anne MacKay
Grenoble Ecole de Management, University of Waterloo and University of Waterloo
Downloads 169 (340,268)
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Variable annuities, pricing, GMMB, GMDB, surrender option

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Comment on 'The Large-Maturity Smile for the Heston Model'

Number of pages: 9 Posted: 21 Mar 2012
Carole Bernard, Zhenyu Cui and Don McLeish
Grenoble Ecole de Management, Stevens Institute of Technology - School of Business and University of Waterloo
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Moment explosion, Heston model, Asymptotics for large maturity, Essential smoothness, Large deviations principle

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Impact of Preferences on Optimal Insurance in the Presence of Multiple Policyholders

Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 12 Nov 2018 Last Revised: 15 Feb 2020
Carole Bernard, Fangda Liu and Steven Vanduffel
Grenoble Ecole de Management, Central University of Finance and Economics (CUFE) - China Institute for Actuarial Science and Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)
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Multiple policyholders, systematic risk, coinsurance, indifference price, insurance supply, public policy

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Optimal Portfolio Under State-Dependent Expected Utility

Number of pages: 19 Posted: 14 Mar 2018
Carole Bernard, Steven Vanduffel and Jiang Ye
Grenoble Ecole de Management, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) and Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)
Downloads 127 (428,545)
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Optimal Portfolio Choice, State-Dependent Utility, Cost-Efficiency, Portfolio Theory, Expected Utility Theory, Loss Aversion, Prospect Theory

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Optimal Surrender Policy for Variable Annuity Guarantees

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 11 Nov 2013 Last Revised: 31 Jan 2014
Carole Bernard, Anne MacKay and Max Muehlbeyer
Grenoble Ecole de Management, University of Waterloo and Ulm University
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Variable annuities, Optimal surrender, GMMB, GMSB

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Optimal Portfolio Choice with Benchmarks

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 21 Jun 2017 Last Revised: 02 Nov 2017
Carole Bernard, Rob De Staelen and Steven Vanduffel
Grenoble Ecole de Management, Ghent University and Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)
Downloads 123 (439,260)
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optimal portfolio, algorithm, law-invariant, distortion, utility, GOP, cost-efficiency, state-dependent preferences, discrete optimization

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Performance Regularity: A New Class of Executive Compensation Packages

Asia-Pacific Financial Markets, Vol. 19, No. 4, pp. 353-370, 2012
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 23 Jan 2012 Last Revised: 11 Jan 2014
Carole Bernard and Olivier Le Courtois
Grenoble Ecole de Management and EM Lyon (Ecole de Management de Lyon) - Department of Economics, Finance, Control
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Executive stock options, Parisian options, Optimal compensation

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What Matters in the Annuitization Decision?

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 04 Nov 2020 Last Revised: 21 Jun 2021
Mohamad Hassan Abou Daya and Carole Bernard
Grenoble Ecole de Management and Grenoble Ecole de Management
Downloads 118 (453,056)

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Annuities Demand, Trust in Financial Analysts, Multiple Factors Test

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Impact of Flexible Periodic Premiums on Variable Annuity Guarantees

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 29 Feb 2016
Carole Bernard, Zhenyu Cui and Steven Vanduffel
Grenoble Ecole de Management, Stevens Institute of Technology - School of Business and Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)
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variable annuity, flexible premium, GMAB, GMDB, Asian options, conditioning

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Optimal Multivariate Financial Decision Making

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 19 Nov 2021 Last Revised: 21 Sep 2022
Carole Bernard, Luca De Gennaro Aquino and Steven Vanduffel
Grenoble Ecole de Management, University of Copenhagen and Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)
Downloads 110 (477,428)
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Cost-efficiency, multivariate utility, multivariate preferences, diversification, systemic risk

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Rationalizing Investors Choice

Journal of Mathematical Economics, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 02 Feb 2014 Last Revised: 01 May 2015
Carole Bernard, Jit Seng Chen and Steven Vanduffel
Grenoble Ecole de Management, Independent and Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)
Downloads 103 (500,615)
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First-order stochastic dominance, Expected Utility, Utility Estimation, Risk Aversion, Law-invariant Preferences, Decreasing Absolute Risk Aversion, Arrow-Pratt risk aversion measure

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Can an Actuarially Unfair Tontine Be Optimal?

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 10 Jan 2024
Carole Bernard, Marco Feliciangeli and Steven Vanduffel
Grenoble Ecole de Management, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) and Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)
Downloads 98 (517,736)
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Tontine, Actuarial fairness, Sabin rule

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On the Martingale Property in Stochastic Volatility Models Based on Time-Homogeneous Diffusions

Mathematical Finance, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 02 Oct 2013 Last Revised: 12 Jul 2014
Carole Bernard, Zhenyu Cui and Don McLeish
Grenoble Ecole de Management, Stevens Institute of Technology - School of Business and University of Waterloo
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Martingale property, Local martingale, Stochastic volatility, Engelbert-Schmidt zero-one law

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An updated version of 'Range Value-at-Risk Bounds for Unimodal Distributions Under Partial Information'

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 05 Mar 2022 Last Revised: 13 Mar 2023
Carole Bernard, Rodrigue Kazzi and Steven Vanduffel
Grenoble Ecole de Management, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) and Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)
Downloads 94 (532,043)

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Model risk, Range Value-at-Risk, Convex ordering, Unimodal distributions, Risk bounds

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Optimal Annuity Demand for General Expected Utility Agents

Insurance: Mathematics and Economics, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 12 May 2020 Last Revised: 07 Nov 2020
Carole Bernard, Luca De Gennaro Aquino and Lucia Levante
Grenoble Ecole de Management, University of Copenhagen and Sapienza University of Rome
Downloads 91 (543,143)
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Expected utility theory, annuity equivalent wealth, longevity risk pooling, life-cycle model, annuity puzzle

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Bounds on Range Value-at-Risk for Unimodal Symmetric Distributions

Please refer to https://ssrn.com/abstract=4468467 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4468467
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 03 Jun 2022 Last Revised: 17 Jul 2024
Carole Bernard, Rodrigue Kazzi and Steven Vanduffel
Grenoble Ecole de Management, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) and Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)
Downloads 89 (550,670)
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Range Value-at-Risk, Value-at-Risk, unimodality, symmetry, risk bounds, Gauss inequality

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Impact of Systemic Risk Regulation on Optimal Policies and Asset Prices

Journal of Banking and Finance, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 65 Posted: 10 May 2022 Last Revised: 01 Aug 2022
Carole Bernard and Xuecan (Emma) Cui
Grenoble Ecole de Management and Institute of Financial Studies (IFS), Southwestern University of Finance and Economics (SWUFE)
Downloads 80 (586,943)
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Systemic risk management, conditional VaR (CoVaR) constraint, systemic expected shortfall (SES), state-dependent capital requirement, stress scenarios, equilibrium analysis.

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Asset Risk Management of Participating Contracts

Asia-Pacific Journal of Risk and Insurance, Vol. 6, N°2, 2012
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 08 Feb 2017
Carole Bernard and Olivier Le Courtois
Grenoble Ecole de Management and EM Lyon (Ecole de Management de Lyon) - Department of Economics, Finance, Control
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Participating Contracts, CPPI, Equity Default Swap, Market Valuation

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Improved block rearrangement algorithm

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 06 Sep 2023 Last Revised: 20 Sep 2023
Carole Bernard, Jinghui Chen, Ludger Rüschendorf and Steven Vanduffel
Grenoble Ecole de Management, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), University of Freiburg and Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)
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Rearrangement algorithm, Block size, Risk bounds, Aggregation risk, Variance of sum, Copula

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Market Value of Life Insurance Contracts Under Stochastic Interest Rates and Default Risk

Insurance: Mathematics and Economics, Vol. 36, No. 3, 2005
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 08 Feb 2017
Carole Bernard, Olivier Le Courtois and Francois Quittard-Pinon
Grenoble Ecole de Management, EM Lyon (Ecole de Management de Lyon) - Department of Economics, Finance, Control and EMLYON Business School
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Participating Life Insurance Policies, Contingent Claims Valuation, Default Risk, Stochastic Interest Rates, Fortet’s Equation

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Bounds on Capital Requirements for Bivariate Risk with Given Marginals and Partial Information on the Dependence

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 04 Oct 2013
Carole Bernard, Yuntao Liu, Niall MacGillivray and Jinyuan Zhang
Grenoble Ecole de Management, University of Waterloo, University of Waterloo and UCLA Anderson School of Management
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Copulas, Fréchet-Hoeffding bounds, Capital requirements

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Model uncertainty assessment for symmetric and right-skewed distributions

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 04 Jun 2023 Last Revised: 17 Jul 2024
Carole Bernard, Rodrigue Kazzi and Steven Vanduffel
Grenoble Ecole de Management, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) and Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)
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Value-at-Risk, Range Value-at-Risk, unimodality, symmetry, right-skewness, T-symmetry, risk bounds, Gauss inequality

62.

Cost-efficiency in Incomplete Markets

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 30 Jun 2022
Carole Bernard and Stephan Sturm
Grenoble Ecole de Management and Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) - Department of Mathematical Sciences
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Cost-efficiency, portfolio choice, law-invariant objective, utility maximization. Mathematics Subject Classification (2010): 91G10

63.

A Study of Mutual Insurance for Bank Deposits

Geneva Risk and Insurance Review, Vol. 30, No. 2, 2005
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 08 Feb 2017
Carole Bernard, Olivier Le Courtois and Francois Quittard-Pinon
Grenoble Ecole de Management, EM Lyon (Ecole de Management de Lyon) - Department of Economics, Finance, Control and EMLYON Business School
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Le Point Sur... Les Options Parisiennes et leurs Applications (An Update On... Parisian Options and Their Applications)

Banque et Marchés, N° 82, p. 81-90, 2006
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 13 Feb 2017
Carole Bernard and Olivier Le Courtois
Grenoble Ecole de Management and EM Lyon (Ecole de Management de Lyon) - Department of Economics, Finance, Control
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Coskewness Under Dependence Uncertainty

Number of pages: 15 Posted: 13 Apr 2023
Carole Bernard, Jinghui Chen, Ludger Rüschendorf and Steven Vanduffel
Grenoble Ecole de Management, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), University of Freiburg and Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)
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Expected product, Higher-order moments, Copula, Coskewness, Risk bounds.

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Omega Compatibility: A Meta-Analysis

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 08 Feb 2023
Carole Bernard, Massimiliano Caporin, Bertrand B. Maillet and Xiang Zhang
Grenoble Ecole de Management, University of Padua - Department of Statistical Sciences, EMLyon Business School (Paris Campus) and School of Finance/Institute of Big Data, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics
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Second-order Stochastic Dominance, Omega Ratio, Performance Measurement

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Robust assessment of life insurance products

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 29 Apr 2022
Carole Bernard, Corrado De Vecchi and Steven Vanduffel
Grenoble Ecole de Management, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) and Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)
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Model Risk, Longevity Risk, Insurance pricing, L^p distance, Actuarial value

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Impact of Model Misspecification on the Value-at-Risk of Unimodal T-Symmetric Distributions

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 20 Dec 2023
Carole Bernard, Rodrigue Kazzi and Steven Vanduffel
Grenoble Ecole de Management, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) and Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)
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Value-at-Risk, risk bounds, unimodality, log-symmetry, model uncertainty

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Green Bonds & Certification: is getting certified always optimal?

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 19 Jul 2024
Rebecca Cardot, Carole Bernard and jamil jaballah
Grenoble Ecole de Management, Grenoble Ecole de Management and Grenoble Ecole de Management - ESC Grenoble
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Green bonds, Certification decisions, Perfect Bayesian Equilibrium, Signalling

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The Impact of Blockchain on Firms' Environmental and Social Performance

Number of pages: 54 Posted: 24 Jul 2024
Carole Bernard, Rebecca Cardot and Jamil Jaballah
Grenoble Ecole de Management, Grenoble Ecole de Management and Grenoble Ecole de Management
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blockchain, patents, environmental and social performance

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Examples and Counterexamples of Cost-efficiency in Incomplete Markets

Number of pages: 21 Posted: 11 Jul 2024
Stephan Sturm and Carole Bernard
Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) - Department of Mathematical Sciences and Grenoble Ecole de Management
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Cost-efficiency, portfolio choice, law-invariant objective, utility maximization. Mathematics Subject Classification (2010): 91G10

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Range Value-at-Risk Bounds for Unimodal Distributions under Partial Information

Insurance: Mathematics and Economics, Vol. 94, p. 9-24, September 2020
Posted: 30 Jun 2019 Last Revised: 23 May 2022
Carole Bernard, Rodrigue Kazzi and Steven Vanduffel
Grenoble Ecole de Management, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) and Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)

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Model risk, Value-at-Risk, Tail Value-at-Risk, Range Value-at-Risk, Convex ordering, Unimodal distributions, Risk bounds

73.

Convergence of the Discrete Variance Swap in Time-Homogeneous Diffusion Models

Quantitative Finance Letters, Forthcoming
Posted: 01 Oct 2013 Last Revised: 09 May 2014
Carole Bernard, Zhenyu Cui and Don McLeish
Grenoble Ecole de Management, Stevens Institute of Technology - School of Business and University of Waterloo

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Discrete variance swap, realized variance, quadratic variation, time-homogeneous diffusions

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Mr. Madoff's Amazing Returns: An Analysis of the Split-Strike Conversion Strategy

Journal of Derivatives, Vol. 17, No. 1, 2009, https://doi.org/10.3905/JOD.2009.17.1.062
Posted: 01 Apr 2009 Last Revised: 21 May 2019
Carole Bernard and Phelim P. Boyle
Grenoble Ecole de Management and Wilfrid Laurier University - School of Business & Economics

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Madoff, split-strike conversion strategy, performance measurement