A toolkit for robust risk assessment using F-divergences

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This paper assembles a toolkit for the assessment of model risk when model uncertainty sets are defined in terms of an F-divergence ball around a reference model. We propose a new family of F-divergences that are easy to implement and flexible enough to imply convincing uncertainty sets for broad classes of reference models. We use our theoretical results to construct concrete examples of divergences that allow for significant amounts of uncertainty about lognormal or heavy-tailed Weibull reference models without implying that the worst case is necessarily infinitely bad. We implement our tools in an open-source software package and apply them to three risk management problems from operations management, insurance, and finance.

Original languageEnglish
JournalManagement Science
Volume67
Issue number10
Pages (from-to)6529-6552
Number of pages24
ISSN0025-1909
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Publication statusPublished - 10.2021

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