# A Characterization of Law-Invariant and Coherent Risk Measures through Optimal Transport

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.19157 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2512.19157/

## Key facts

- Cited by 1 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- First posted on arXiv 22 Dec 2025.

## Built on by (most cited first, 1 of 1)

- [Convergence of empirical subgradients for optimal transport-based objectives](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2605.28134/) (2026)

## Abstract (arXiv)

In this article, we propose a novel characterization of law-invariant and coherent risk measures, based on a generalized optimal transport problem in which the second marginal of the admissible plans is not fixed, but required to lie within a target set of probability measures. One of the main contributions of this work is a general representation formula for such risk measures, which is closely related to Kusuoka's theorem. When the aforementioned target set is convex, our representation result allows for the systematic derivation of general duality formulas. To illustrate our findings, we explicitly compute the target sets associated with several classical law-invariant coherent risk measures, including the prototypical conditional value at risk and higher moment measures.