| Article ID: | iaor20102878 | 
| Volume: | 36 | 
| Issue: | 5 | 
| Start Page Number: | 515 | 
| End Page Number: | 519 | 
| Publication Date: | Sep 2008 | 
| Journal: | Operations Research Letters | 
| Authors: | Wang Wei, Ahmed Shabbir | 
| Keywords: | value at risk | 
We propose a sample average approximation (SAA) method for stochastic programming problems with expected value constraints. Such problems arise, for example, in portfolio selection with constraints on conditional value-at-risk (CVaR). We provide a convergence analysis and a statistical validation scheme for the proposed method.