Title
Constructing Risk Measures from Uncertainty Sets
Abstract
We illustrate the correspondence between uncertainty sets in robust optimization and some popular risk measures in finance and show how robust optimization can be used to generalize the concepts of these risk measures. We also show that by using properly defined uncertainty sets in robust optimization models, one can construct coherent risk measures and address the issue of the computational tractability of the resulting formulations. Our results have implications for efficient portfolio optimization under different measures of risk.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1287/opre.1080.0683
Operations Research
Keywords
Field
DocType
robust optimization model,efficient portfolio optimization,popular risk measure,coherent risk measure,constructing risk measures,different measure,computational tractability,risk measure,uncertainty set,robust optimization,uncertainty sets,finance,portfolio management,portfolio optimization
Probabilistic-based design optimization,Mathematical optimization,Robust optimization,Project portfolio management,Portfolio optimization,Risk management,Mathematics,Operations management
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
57
5
0030-364X
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
57
3.73
18
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Karthik Natarajan140731.52
Dessislava Pachamanova228017.89
Melvyn Sim31909117.68