A coskewness shrinkage approach for estimating the skewness of linear combinations of random variables

K Boudt, D Cornilly, T Verdonck - Journal of Financial …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Decision-making in finance often requires an accurate estimate of the coskewness matrix to
optimize the allocation to random variables with asymmetric distributions. The classical …

Nearest comoment estimation with unobserved factors

K Boudt, D Cornilly, T Verdonck - Journal of econometrics, 2020 - Elsevier
We propose a minimum distance estimator for the higher-order comoments of a multivariate
distribution exhibiting a lower dimensional latent factor structure. We derive the influence …

[PDF][PDF] Package 'performanceanalytics'

…, R Bennett, J Ulrich, E Zivot, D Cornilly… - R Team …, 2018 - cran.opencpu.org
Description Collection of econometric functions for performance and risk analysis. In
addition to standard risk and performance metrics, this package aims to aid practitioners and …

[PDF][PDF] Algorithmic portfolio tilting to harvest higher moment gains

K Boudt, D Cornilly, F Van Holle, J Willems - Heliyon, 2020 - cell.com
Many financial portfolios are not mean-variance-skewness-kurtosis efficient. We recommend
tilting these portfolios in a direction that increases their estimated mean and third central …

Optimal portfolios under a correlation constraint

C Bernard, D Cornilly, S Vanduffel - Quantitative Finance, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
CornillyFaculty of Economics, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Pleinlaan 2, 1050Bruxelles,
Belgium.;Department of Mathematics, KU Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200B, 3001Leuven …

Upper bounds for strictly concave distortion risk measures on moment spaces

D Cornilly, L Rüschendorf, S Vanduffel - Insurance: Mathematics and …, 2018 - Elsevier
The study of worst-case scenarios for risk measures (eg, Value-at-Risk) when the underlying
risk (or portfolio of risks) is not completely specified is a central topic in the literature on …

Fair allocation of indivisible goods with minimum inequality or minimum envy

D Cornilly, G Puccetti, L Rüschendorf… - European Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
We provide a new mathematical framework for the classic problem of fair allocation of
indivisible goods, showing that it can be formulated as the problem of finding an optimal column …

Sustainability Attribution: The case of carbon intensity

G Bolliger, D Cornilly - The Journal of Impact and ESG Investing, 2021 - pm-research.com
This article proposes a method to decompose the carbon intensity of a portfolio with respect
to a benchmark into an allocation and a selection component. The carbon-intensity …

Robust and sparse logistic regression

D Cornilly, L Tubex, S Van Aelst, T Verdonck - Advances in Data Analysis …, 2023 - Springer
Logistic regression is one of the most popular statistical techniques for solving (binary)
classification problems in various applications (eg credit scoring, cancer detection, ad click …

On some synchronization problems with multiple instances

D Cornilly, G Puccetti, L Rüschendorf… - Journal of Computational …, 2022 - Elsevier
Many classical synchronization problems such as the assembly line crew scheduling
problem (ALCS), some data association problems or multisensor tracking problems can be …