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Juan Juan Cai

Research Fellow

University
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Research field
Econometrics
Interests
Econometrics, Risk Management

Biography

Juan-Juan Cai is an Associate Professor at the department of econometrics and data science of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Before joining VU Amsterdam, she was an assistant professor at the applied mathematics department at Delft University of Technology. She received her PhD in statistics from Tilburg University.
Her research mainly focuses on developing statistical methods for extreme events, with applications in risk management in finance, in extreme weather forecasting (statistical post-processing), in survival analysis.

List of publications

Einmahl, JohnH.J., Krajina, A. and Cai, J.J. (2025). Empirical likelihood based testing for multivariate regular variation Annals of Statistics, 53(1):352--373.

Cai, J.J., Chavez-Demoulin, V. and Guillou, A. (2017). Modified marginal expected shortfall under asymptotic dependence Biometrika, 104(1):243--249.

Cai, J.J., Einmahl, JohnH.J. and De Haan, L. (2011). Estimation of extreme risk regions under multivariate regular variation Annals of Statistics, 39(3):1803--1826.