Systemic Risk

Mon, 29/04
16:30
George Papanicolaou (Stanford University) Colloquia Add to calendar L2
The quantification and management of risk in financial marketsis at the center of modern financial mathematics. But until recently, riskassessment models did not consider the effects of inter-connectedness offinancial agents and the way risk diversification impacts the stability ofmarkets. I will give an introduction to these problems and discuss theimplications of some mathematical models for dealing with them.