Modelling

Don't blame the quants, says Merton

Quantitative models were unfairly criticised in the aftermath of the financial crisis, says legendary quant and co-creator of the Black-Scholes equation, but there’s plenty for quants to work on in the current environment

Marcelo Cruz: Robust estimation

A number of recent papers submitted to the Journal of Operational Risk on robust estimation reflect the concerns of the op risk modelling community about the reliability of parameter estimation in severity distributions