Risk equity serves as the purported rationale for a wide range of inefficient policy practices, such as the concern that hypothetical individual risks not be too great. This paper proposes an alternative risk equity concept in terms of equitable tradeoffs rather than equity in risk levels....

This chapter provides an overview of the current methodology for assessing environmental health risks. Our primary focus is on the practices that U.S. regulatory agencies use for assessing cancer risk, although we also provide a brief comparison to the methodology used in Western Europe. We then...

We develop in this paper a novel portfolio selection framework with a feature of dual robustness in both return distribution modeling and portfolio optimization. While predicting the return distributions of the future market always represents the most compelling challenge in investment, any...