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Model Risk

A topic within Risk Management, itself one of 11 topics in that field and part of Finance & Investing.

Reading on Model Risk

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2 works

Paper1996

Model Risk

Emanuel Derman

Argues that a pricing model is at best a crude, leaky map from a small number of observable parameters to a price, and catalogues the specific ways this map breaks down in practice.

Report2011

Guidance on Model Risk Management

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System & Office of the Comptroller of the Currency

Sets out supervisory expectations that banks treat every model as a simplification that can be wrong in ways that matter, and requires independent validation of a model's conceptual soundness, not just its outputs, as the core discipline for managing model risk.

link checked 17 Sept 2026

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