Andreas Tsanakas

City University London - Cass Business School

Lecturer in Actuarial Science

106 Bunhill Row

London, EC1Y 8TZ

United Kingdom

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Optimal Capital Allocation Principles

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Optimal Capital Allocation Principles

The final version of this article appeared as: Dhaene J., Tsanakas, A. , Valdez, E. A. , Vanduffel, S. (2012), 'Optimal Capital Allocation Principles', Journal of Risk and Insurance, 79(1), p.1-28.
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 26 Jan 2009 Last Revised: 03 Jan 2014
Jan Dhaene, Andreas Tsanakas, Emiliano A. Valdez and Steven Vanduffel
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, City University London - Cass Business School, University of Connecticut - Department of Mathematics and Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)
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Capital allocation, risk measure, comonotonicity, Euler allocation, default option, Lloyd's of London

Optimal Capital Allocation Principles

Journal of Risk and Insurance, Vol. 79, Issue 1, pp. 1-28, 2012
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 24 Feb 2012
Jan Dhaene, Andreas Tsanakas, Emiliano A. Valdez and Steven Vanduffel
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, City University London - Cass Business School, University of Connecticut - Department of Mathematics and Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)
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Measurement and Pricing of Risk in Insurance Markets

The final version of this paper appeared as: Tsanakas A., E. Desli (2005), 'Measurement and pricing of risk in insurance markets', Risk Analysis, 25(6), p.1653-1668.
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 12 Aug 2007 Last Revised: 03 Jan 2014
Andreas Tsanakas and Evangelia Desli
City University London - Cass Business School and Aristotle University of Thessaloniki - School of Economics
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Risk measures, Insurance Pricing, Choice under Risk, Risk Exchange, Good Deals

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Risk Measures and Economic Capital for (Re)Insurers

The final version of this article appeared as: Tsanakas Andreas (2008), 'Risk measures and economic capital for (re)insurers' in B. Everitt and E. Melnick (ed.), Encyclopedia of Quantitative Risk Assessment (by invitation), Wiley.
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 12 Aug 2007 Last Revised: 03 Jan 2014
Andreas Tsanakas
City University London - Cass Business School
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risk measures, economic capital, risk capital, premium principles, choice under risk, solvency, capital allocation, insurance pricing, return on capital

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Discrimination-Free Insurance Pricing

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 10 Feb 2020
Mathias Lindholm, Ronald Richman, Andreas Tsanakas and Mario V. Wuthrich
Stockholm University, QED Actuaries and Consultants, City University London - Cass Business School and RiskLab, ETH Zurich
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discrimination, differentiation, insurance pricing, individual policy char- acteristics, discriminatory covariates, direct discrimination, indirect discrimination, neural networks, complex algorithmic models, causal inference, confounding

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Model Uncertainty in Risk Capital Measurement

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Model Uncertainty in Risk Capital Measurement

Journal of Risk, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 03 Oct 2013 Last Revised: 12 May 2015
Valeria Bignozzi and Andreas Tsanakas
Università di Milano Bicocca - Dipartimento di Statistica e Metodi Quantitativi and City University London - Cass Business School
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Model uncertainty, Model error, Historical simulation, Worst-case approach, Bayesian model averaging, Value-at-Risk.

Model Uncertainty in Risk Capital Measurement

Journal of Risk, Vol. 18, No. 3, 2016
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 15 Jun 2016
Valeria Bignozzi and Andreas Tsanakas
Università di Milano Bicocca - Dipartimento di Statistica e Metodi Quantitativi and City University London - Cass Business School
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model uncertainty, model error, historical simulation, worst-case approach, Bayesian, model averaging, value-at-risk

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Dynamic Capital Allocation With Distortion Risk Measures

The final version of this article appeared as: Tsanakas A. (2004), ''Dynamic risk capital allocation with distortion measures'', Insurance: Mathematics and Economics, 35(2), p.223-243.
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 12 Aug 2007 Last Revised: 09 Jun 2014
Andreas Tsanakas
City University London - Cass Business School
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capital allocation, risk management, cooperative games, distorted probability, correlation order.

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Risk Measures and Theories of Choice

The final version of this article appeared as: Tsanakas A., E. Desli (2003), ''Risk measures and theories of choice'', British Actuarial Journal, 9(4), p.959-991.
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 13 Aug 2007 Last Revised: 03 Jan 2014
Andreas Tsanakas and Evangelia Desli
City University London - Cass Business School and Aristotle University of Thessaloniki - School of Economics
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Risk Measures, Premium Calculation Principles, Coherent Measures of Risk, Distortion Premium Principle, Exponential Premium Principle, Expected Utility, Dual Theory of Choice Under Risk, Generalised Expected Utility

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Sensitivity Analysis Using Risk Measures

Forthcoming, Risk Analysis: An International Journal.
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 24 Nov 2013 Last Revised: 16 Jun 2015
Andreas Tsanakas and Pietro Millossovich
City University London - Cass Business School and City University London - Sir John Cass Business School
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Sensitivity analysis, risk measures, uncertainty analysis, risk aggregation, parameter uncertainty, dependence

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Parameter Uncertainty and Residual Estimation Risk

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Parameter Uncertainty and Residual Estimation Risk

This is a preprint of an article accepted for publication in the Journal of Risk and Insurance, (c) 2004 the American Risk and Insurance Association.
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 10 Oct 2012 Last Revised: 10 Oct 2014
Valeria Bignozzi and Andreas Tsanakas
Università di Milano Bicocca - Dipartimento di Statistica e Metodi Quantitativi and City University London - Cass Business School
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Parameter uncertainty, model uncertainty, bootstrap, predictive distribution, location-scale families, risk measures, solvency

Parameter Uncertainty and Residual Estimation Risk

Journal of Risk and Insurance, Vol. 83, Issue 4, pp. 949-978, 2016
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 11 Nov 2016
Valeria Bignozzi and Andreas Tsanakas
Università di Milano Bicocca - Dipartimento di Statistica e Metodi Quantitativi and City University London - Cass Business School
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Failure Probability Under Parameter Uncertainty

The final version of this article appeared as: Gerrard R. J., Tsanakas, A. (2011), 'Failure probability under parameter uncertainty,' Risk Analysis: An International Journal, Vol. 31, No. 4, pp.727-744
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 11 Oct 2009 Last Revised: 03 Jan 2014
Russell J. Gerrard and Andreas Tsanakas
City University London - Sir John Cass Business School and City University London - Cass Business School
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solvency, Value-at-Risk, insurance, parameter uncertainty, location-scale families

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How Superadditive Can a Risk Measure Be?

Forthcoming in SIAM Journal on Financial Mathematics (SIFIN)
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 01 Jan 2014 Last Revised: 04 Jun 2015
Ruodu Wang, Valeria Bignozzi and Andreas Tsanakas
University of Waterloo - Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, Università di Milano Bicocca - Dipartimento di Statistica e Metodi Quantitativi and City University London - Cass Business School
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distortion risk measures; shortfall risk measures; expectiles; model uncertainty; risk aggregation; superadditivity; coherence

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Risk Capital Allocation and Cooperative Pricing of Insurance Liabilities

The final version of this article appeared as: Tsanakas A., C. Barnett (2003), ''Risk capital allocation and cooperative pricing of insurance liabilities'', Insurance: Mathematics and Economics, 33(2), p.239-254.
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 12 Aug 2007 Last Revised: 03 Jan 2014
Andreas Tsanakas and Christopher Barnett
City University London - Cass Business School and Imperial College London
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cooperative games, Aumann-Shapley value, distortion premium principle, coherent risk measures, equilibrium

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To Split or Not to Split: Capital Allocation with Convex Risk Measures

The final version of this article appeared as: Tsanakas A (2009), 'To split or not to split: capital allocation with convex risk measures', Insurance: Mathematics and Economics, 44(2), p.268-277.
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 31 Oct 2007 Last Revised: 03 Jan 2014
Andreas Tsanakas
City University London - Cass Business School
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Convex measures of risk, capital allocation, Aumann-Shapley value, inf-convolution

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Optimal Risk Transfers in Insurance Groups

The final version of this article has appeared as: Asimit A. V., Badescu, A. M., Tsanakas, A. (2013), 'Optimal Risk Transfers in Insurance Groups', European Actuarial Journal, 3(1), p.159-190
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 19 Jan 2012 Last Revised: 03 Jan 2014
Alexandru Vali Asimit, Alex Badescu and Andreas Tsanakas
Cass Business School, City, University of London, University of Calgary and City University London - Cass Business School
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Cost of Capital, Expected Shortfall, Insurance Groups, Optimal Reinsurance, Value-at-Risk

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Market Value Margin via Mean-Variance Hedging

The final version of this article has appeared as: Tsanakas A., Wüthrich, M., Cerny, A. (2013), 'Market value margin via mean-variance hedging', ASTIN Bulletin, 43(3), p.301-322.
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 20 Sep 2012 Last Revised: 03 Jan 2014
Andreas Tsanakas, Mario V. Wuthrich and Aleš Černý
City University London - Cass Business School, RiskLab, ETH Zurich and Cass Business School, City, University of London
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Cost-of-capital, market consistent valuation, market value margin, mean-variance hedging, Solvency II

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Optimal Capital Allocation in a Hierarchical Corporate Structure

The final version of this article will be published in Insurance: Mathematics and Economics, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 02 Aug 2013 Last Revised: 11 Mar 2014
Yaniv Zaks and Andreas Tsanakas
Zaks Finance and City University London - Cass Business School
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capital allocation, optimal capital, weighted capital allocation, hierarchical firms, risk measure

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High Dimensional Modelling and Simulation with Asymmetric Normal Mixtures

Number of pages: 18 Posted: 11 Aug 2007
Andreas Tsanakas and Andrew D. Smith
City University London - Cass Business School and University College Dublin (UCD)
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Dependence, copula, normal mixtures, Kronecker product,

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Risk Exchange With Distorted Probabilities

The final version of this article appeared as: Tsanakas A., N. Christofides (2006), ''Risk exchange with distorted probabilities'', Astin Bulletin, 36(1), p.219-243.
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 13 Aug 2007 Last Revised: 03 Jan 2014
Andreas Tsanakas and Nikos Christofides
City University London - Cass Business School and Imperial College London - Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine
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Risk Measurement in the Presence of Background Risk

The final version of this article appeared as: Tsanakas A (2008), 'Risk measurement in the presence of background risk', Insurance: Mathematics and Economics, 42(2), p.520-528.
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 12 Aug 2007 Last Revised: 03 Jan 2014
Andreas Tsanakas
City University London - Cass Business School
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Risk measures, Background risk, Capital allocation, Portfolio management, Elliptical distributions

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Capital Allocation for Portfolios with Non-Linear Risk Aggregation

Insurance: Mathematics and Economics, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 21 May 2016 Last Revised: 16 Nov 2016
Tim J. Boonen, Andreas Tsanakas and Mario V. Wuthrich
University of Amsterdam, City University London - Cass Business School and RiskLab, ETH Zurich
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Capital allocation, Euler rule, fuzzy core, Aumann-Shapley value, risk measures

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Stochastic Ordering of Bivariate Elliptical Distributions

The final version of this article appeared as: Landsman Z., A. Tsanakas (2006), ''Stochastic ordering of bivariate elliptical distributions'', Statistics and Probability Letters, 76, p.488-494.
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 13 Aug 2007 Last Revised: 03 Jan 2014
Zinoviy Landsman and Andreas Tsanakas
University of Haifa, Department of Statistics and City University London - Cass Business School
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Elliptical distributions, convex order, concordance order, dependence, risk management

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Parameter Uncertainty in Exponential Family Tail Estimation

The final version of this article has appeared as: Landsman Z, Tsanakas, A. (2012), 'Parameter uncertainty in exponential family tail estimation', ASTIN Bulletin, 42(1), p.123 - 152.
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 29 Jun 2011 Last Revised: 03 Jan 2014
Zinoviy Landsman and Andreas Tsanakas
University of Haifa, Department of Statistics and City University London - Cass Business School
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reinsurance pricing, VAR, parameter uncertainty, bias, bootstrap, exponential families

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Taming Uncertainty: The Limits to Quantification

Forthcoming, Tsanakas A, Beck, MB, Thompson, M (2016), 'Taming Uncertainty: The Limits to Quantification', ASTIN Bulletin, 46(1), p.1-7
Number of pages: 6 Posted: 26 May 2016
Andreas Tsanakas, M. Bruce Beck and Michael Thompson
City University London - Cass Business School, Imperial College London - Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)
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Model uncertainty, model govenance, model risk, plural rationalities, epistemic uncertainty, ontological uncertainty

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The Elephant in the Room: Model Error and Solvency Regulation

Number of pages: 4 Posted: 07 Sep 2012
Andreas Tsanakas
City University London - Cass Business School
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Model error, Regulation, Solvency 2

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

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 10 Feb 2020
Silvana M. Pesenti, Alberto Bettini, Pietro Millossovich and Andreas Tsanakas
University of Toronto, affiliation not provided to SSRN, City University London - Sir John Cass Business School and City University London - Cass Business School
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Sensitivity analysis, risk measures, stress testing, sensitivity measures, Kullback-Leibler divergence

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Cascade Sensitivity Measures

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 13 Nov 2018 Last Revised: 04 Nov 2019
Silvana M. Pesenti, Pietro Millossovich and Andreas Tsanakas
University of Toronto, City University London - Sir John Cass Business School and City University London - Cass Business School
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Sensitivity analysis, importance measures, perturbation analysis, risk measures, importance sampling, dependence, Rosenblatt transform

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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, City University London - Sir John Cass Business School and City University London - Cass Business School
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Convex risk measures, Aggregation, Value-at-Risk, Robustness, Continuity

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Characterization and Construction of Sequentially Consistent Risk Measures

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 04 Oct 2013
Valeria Bignozzi and Andreas Tsanakas
Università di Milano Bicocca - Dipartimento di Statistica e Metodi Quantitativi and City University London - Cass Business School
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dynamic risk measures, sequential consistency, TVaR, Choquet risk measure, coherent entropic risk measure

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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, City University London - Sir John Cass Business School and City University London - Cass Business School
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Robustness and Sensitivity Analysis, Risk Management, Value-at-Risk, Expected Shortfall, Stress Testing

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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, City University London - Cass Business School and City University London - Sir John Cass Business School
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Distortion Risk Measures, Capital Allocation, Euler Allocation, Aumann-Shapley, Reinsurance, Aggregation

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The Model Ajar: Building Rationality Infrastructures Within Insurance Organizations

Number of pages: 10 Posted: 07 Oct 2018
Andreas Tsanakas and Laure Cabantous
City University London - Cass Business School and Cass Business School, City University London
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Risk Margin for a Non-Life Insurance Run-Off

The final version of this article has appeared as: Wuethrich M. V., Embrechts, P., Tsanakas, A. (2011), 'Risk margin for a non-life insurance run-off', Statistics & Risk Modeling, 28, p. 299-317.
Posted: 15 Aug 2011 Last Revised: 03 Jan 2014
Mario V. Wuthrich, Paul Embrechts and Andreas Tsanakas
RiskLab, ETH Zurich, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich and City University London - Cass Business School

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claims reserving, best-estimate reserves, run-off risks, risk margin, market value margin, one-year uncertainty, claims development result, market-consistent valuation