Scenarios are the language of Risk. While scenario analysis and stress testing have been an explicit part of risk management methodologies and systems for over two decades, the typical scenario and stress testing tools haven't evolved much and are still generally quite static and largely...

This paper provides an in-depth investigation of Epstein-Zin preferences under an uncertain lifetime. These models have been gaining popularity as normative preference models in life-cycle applications. Though extensively used, it is unclear if the preference models are well-understood by the...

In this paper, we discuss optimal design for stylized Intergenerational Risk Sharing (IRS) pension plans. We study an IRS plan under which both contributions and pension benefits are adjusted based on the level of pension assets. Our optimization focuses on the stability of members' lifetime...

We consider the problem of determining an upper bound for the value of a spectral risk measure of a loss that is a general nonlinear function of two factors whose marginal distributions are known, but whose joint distribution is unknown. The factors may take values in complete separable metric...