Simplified vine copula models: State of science and affairs
2025
Vine copula models have become highly popular practical tools for modeling multivariate dependencies. To maintain tractability, a commonly employed simplifying assumption is that conditional copulas...
Keeping risk alive
2025
Risk premia in markets rise with the degree of discontinuity in price motion. This discontinuity is measured by the scale and speed coefficients of price movements embedded in the bilateral gamma process,...
Multiple climate ambiguities and optimal carbon emission abatement decisions
2025
This paper develops a climate-economy model to study how ambiguity about key climate and economic factors affects carbon abatement decisions. We focus on three sources of ambiguity: climate sensitivity...
China’s economic and financial risks and the prospect of reforms: An interview with David Daokui Li
2025
In this interview, David Daokui Li, a prominent economist and professor at Tsinghua University, discusses the critical economic and financial risks facing China and proposes reforms to address them....
What are risk sciences?
2025
This article articulates a conceptual framework for risk sciences—an emerging interdisciplinary field dedicated to the study of risk and uncertainty across natural, social, economic, management, technological...
From Managing Uncertainty to National Strategy: An Interview with Lim Siong Guan
Available online 1 October 2025
