Philipp Arbenz, PhD, Actuary SAV
Contact: philipp{dot}arbenz[a]gmail{dot}com
Publications:
with Edoardo Luini:
Density Estimation of Multivariate Samples using Wasserstein Distance
Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, 88(16), 2019, 3193-3216, publication, preprint,with Mathieu Cambou, Marius Hofert, Christiane Lemieux, Yoshihiro Taniguchi:
Importance Sampling and Stratification for Copula Models.
In: Dick J., Kuo F., Woźniakowski H. (Editors) Contemporary Computational Mathematics - A Celebration of the 80th Birthday of Ian Sloan. Springer, 2018, 75-96, preprint, old versionwith Claire Hugo:
Intelligent Machines - Risks and Opportunities for (Re)insurance
SCOR technical newsletter #42, 2018, pdf, Presentation, press releasewith William Guevara-Alarcón:
Piecewise Linear Approximation of Empirical Distributions under a Wasserstein Distance Constraint
Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, 88(16), 2018,
Preprint, Presentation, Python code, final publicationwith William Guevara-Alarcón:
Risk Measure Preserving Piecewise Linear Approximation of Empirical Distributions
European Actuarial Journal, 6(1), 2016, 113-148,
Preprint, Presentation (Long), Presentation (Short), Code (Python), Code (C++), R Code: (Source, Install Instructions, Windows Binaries, Source on GitHub), Final Publication (pdf), Final Publication (web view)with Robert Salzmann:
On a combination of multiplicative and additive stochastic loss reserving methods
CAS E-Forum, Summer 2014. Publication, preprint, Presentation, Excel implementationBayesian Copulae Distributions, with Application to Operational Risk Management - Some Comments
Methodology and Computing in Applied Probability, 15(1), 2013, 105-108. paper on springerlink.comMultivariate Modelling in Non-Life Insurance
Dissertation for the Doctor of Sciences, ETH Zurich, 2012, pdfwith Christoph Hummel, Georg Mainik:
Copula based hierarchical risk aggregation through sample reordering
Insurance: Mathematics and Economics, 51(1), 2012, 122-133.
preprint, presentation, MatLab example code, R example code, Paper on Convergence (G Mainik), related Master thesiswith Davide Canestraro:
Estimating Copulas for Insurance from Scarce Observations, Expert Opinion and Prior Information: A Bayesian Approach
ASTIN Bulletin, 42(1), 2012, 271-290. preprint, Presentation, SCOR PrObEx Paper, SCOR PrObEx Leaflet, SCOR PrObEx Summary Chapterwith Paul Embrechts, Giovanni Puccetti:
The GAEP Algorithm for the Fast Computation of the Distribution of a Function of Dependent Random Variables
Stochastics, 84(5-6), 2012, 569-597. preprintwith Paul Embrechts, Giovanni Puccetti:
The AEP algorithm for the fast computation of the distribution of the sum of dependent random variables
Bernoulli, 17(2), 2011, 562-591. preprint, preprint on arXiv.