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Published in: Mathematics and Financial Economics 1/2018

14-12-2017

Foreword to the special issue on “Robustness, Knightian uncertainty, and games in finance”

Authors: Frank Riedel, Chris Shannon, Jan Werner

Published in: Mathematics and Financial Economics | Issue 1/2018

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In recent years, the related issues of Knightian uncertainty and robustness have emerged as major themes in financial economics and decision theory. A rich theory of decision making under Knightian uncertainty has been developed in decision theory, complemented by a rich literature on risk measures in mathematics and finance. Both research strands emphasize the need to deal with foundational modeling assumptions. At the same time, due in part to the financial crisis starting in 2007, the need for “robust finance” became clear both in practice and in theory, and since then robust finance has become one of the main problems in the field. …

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Title
Foreword to the special issue on “Robustness, Knightian uncertainty, and games in finance”
Authors
Frank Riedel
Chris Shannon
Jan Werner
Publication date
14-12-2017
Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in
Mathematics and Financial Economics / Issue 1/2018
Print ISSN: 1862-9679
Electronic ISSN: 1862-9660
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11579-017-0208-x

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