2015 Enterprise Risk Management Symposium
ERM Symposium 
June 11–12, 2015 
National Harbor, Maryland
Award Winners
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The Actuarial Foundation’s ERM Research Excellence Award in Memory of Hubert Mueller for Best Overall Paper
How Resilient is Your Organization? From Local Failures to Systemic Risk
Christos Ellinas, Neil Allan, Neil Cantle
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PRMIA’s Award for New Frontiers in Risk Management
A Cost of Capital Approach to Credit and Liquidity Spreads
B. John Manistre
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Joint CAS/CIA/SOA Risk Management Section Award for Practical Risk Management Applications
Into the Tails of Risk: An Intervention into the Process of Risk Evaluation
David Ingram
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Additional Research Papers Selected for the 2015 ERM Call for Papers
-  The Modeling Continuum  
Henry Essert
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-  Economic Capital: An Alternate Copula-Free Approach  
Jawwad Ahmed Farid
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-  A Shortcut to Calculating Return on Required Equity and Its Link to Cost of Capital  
Nicholas Jacobi
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-  Stochastic Ordering of Reinsurance Structures  
Hou-wen Jeng
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-  Adaptive Risk Management: Powered by Network Science  
Alan Laubsch
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-  ERM at the Speed of Thought: Mitigation of Cognitive Bias in Risk Assessment  
Damon Levine
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-  The Most Dangerous Model: A Natural Benchmark for Assessing Model Risk  
John A. Major, Ruodu Wang, and Micah G. Woolstenhulme
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-  Grey Swans: Fifty Shades of Grey  –  Plausible Stress Testing  
Gary Nan Tie
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-  Efficient Frontier of New Business  
Yuhong (Jason) Xue
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-  Model Uncertainty in Operational Risk Modeling  
Daoping Yu, Vytaras Brazauskas
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