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We will never have a perfect model of risk. — by Alan Greenspan

Chris F. Masse March 17th, 2008

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Alan Greenspan:

The most credible explanation of why risk management based on state-of-the-art statistical models can perform so poorly is that the underlying data used to estimate a model’s structure are drawn generally from both periods of euphoria and periods of fear, that is, from regimes with importantly different dynamics.

We will never have a perfect model of risk

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