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Risks, Volume 11, Issue 4

2023 April - 15 articles

Cover Story: Studying almost thirty years of quarterly underwriting data, this research challenges the question of existence and the predictability of underwriting cycles in the U.S. property and casualty insurance industry. There exists a hidden periodic component in annual aggregated loss ratios, supporting an underwriting cycle length of 8–9 years. The analysis suggests that reliable forecasts can be achieved net of the irregular major peaks in loss distributions that arise from hurricanes, other natural catastrophes, and unusual “black swan” events. View this paper
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Articles (15)

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,898 Views
35 Pages

CEO Social Capital and the Value Relevance of Accounting Metrics

  • Michael S. Luehlfing,
  • William R. McCumber and
  • Huan Qiu

18 April 2023

Equity investors value CEO social capital when pricing firm equity. When CEO social capital is high, the value relevance of the book value of equity declines, whereas the value relevance of earnings measures increases. Results are stronger for firms...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,853 Views
21 Pages

18 April 2023

Pension plans play a vital role in the economy by impacting savings, consumption, and investment allocation. Despite declining mortality rates and increasing life expectancy, pension enrollment remains low, affecting the long-term financial stability...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
7,625 Views
25 Pages

The Impact of Intellectual Capital on the Firm Performance of Russian Manufacturing Companies

  • Angi Skhvediani,
  • Anastasia Koklina,
  • Tatiana Kudryavtseva and
  • Diana Maksimenko

13 April 2023

The manufacturing industry makes a significant contribution to Russia’s GDP and exports, but it faces problems that hinder its development. The aim of this study is to estimate the relationship between intellectual capital and performance indic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
7,217 Views
25 Pages

11 April 2023

This paper challenges the question of existence and predictability of underwriting cycles in the U.S. property and casualty insurance industry. Using an approach in the frequency domain, we demonstrate the existence of a hidden periodic component in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,989 Views
11 Pages

Financial Risk Management of the Russian Economy during the COVID-19 Pandemic

  • Sergey Kolchin,
  • Nadezda Glubokova,
  • Mikhail Gordienko,
  • Galina Semenova and
  • Milyausha Khalilova

11 April 2023

The research objects are the tax and budgetary policies of the Russian Federation. In this research, financial (budgetary) risks are understood as a decrease in the balance of the state (national) budget resulting from a reduction in revenues or an i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,245 Views
17 Pages

10 April 2023

This article studies insurance demand in a two-period framework in which an individual faces risks in both current and future periods. Models for insurance with and without the presence of endogenous saving are both discussed. In contrast to what mos...

  • Article
  • Open Access
37 Citations
26,769 Views
22 Pages

Heuristic Biases as Mental Shortcuts to Investment Decision-Making: A Mediation Analysis of Risk Perception

  • Jinesh Jain,
  • Nidhi Walia,
  • Himanshu Singla,
  • Simarjeet Singh,
  • Kiran Sood and
  • Simon Grima

3 April 2023

In the last two decades, research on behavioural biases has grown dramatically, fuelled by rising academic interest and zeal for publication. The present study explores the mediating role of risk perception on the relationship between heuristic biase...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,758 Views
17 Pages

Machine Learning Algorithm for Mid-Term Projection of the EU Member States’ Indebtedness

  • Silvia Zarkova,
  • Dimitar Kostov,
  • Petko Angelov,
  • Tsvetan Pavlov and
  • Andrey Zahariev

3 April 2023

The main research question addressed in the paper is related to the possibility of medium-term forecasting of the public debts of the EU member states. The analysis focuses on a broad range of indicators (macroeconomic, fiscal, monetary, global, and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,254 Views
19 Pages

29 March 2023

The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and the Russian–Ukrainian war have had a significant impact on economies around the world, with pivotal implications for the activities of companies. The issue of corporate financial literacy has been within...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,587 Views
22 Pages

The Nexus of Competition, Loan Quality, and Ownership Structure for Risk-Taking Behaviour

  • Syed Moudud-Ul-Huq,
  • Md. Abdul Halim,
  • Farid Ahammad Sobhani,
  • Ziaul Karim and
  • Zinnatun Nesa

29 March 2023

“The core purpose is to explore the relationship between competition, loan quality, ownership structure, and risk for MENA economies.” In addition, this study examines the financial stability level of dual banking and explores the bidirec...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,031 Views
16 Pages

28 March 2023

Our study investigates the optimal dividend strategy for a bank, taking into account the potential for government capital injections. We explore different types of government interventions, such as liberal, transparent, or uncertain strategies, and c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
7,316 Views
23 Pages

27 March 2023

This article assesses the effects of economic uncertainty on the corporate capital structure of Chinese-listed firms using a panel dataset of 1138 firms with A-shares traded on the Shanghai Stock Exchange and Shenzhen Stock Exchange for the period 20...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
7,494 Views
24 Pages

A Comparison of Competing Asset Pricing Models: Empirical Evidence from Pakistan

  • Eleftherios Thalassinos,
  • Naveed Khan,
  • Shakeel Ahmed,
  • Hassan Zada and
  • Anjum Ihsan

24 March 2023

In recent years, the rapid and significant development of emerging markets has globally led to insight from potential investors and academicians seeking to assess these markets in terms of risk inheritance. Therefore, this study aims to explore the v...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,296 Views
16 Pages

Asymptotic Expected Utility of Dividend Payments in a Classical Collective Risk Process

  • Sebastian Baran,
  • Corina Constantinescu and
  • Zbigniew Palmowski

23 March 2023

We find the asymptotics of the value function maximizing the expected utility of discounted dividend payments of an insurance company whose reserves are modeled as a classical Cramér risk process, with exponentially distributed claims, when the initi...

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