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Risks, Volume 7, Issue 4

2019 December - 26 articles

Cover Story: The figure illustrates our proposal of a two-step procedure to assess the riskiness of long-term stock returns in excess of different benchmarks, such as the short- and long-term interest rate, the earnings-by-price ratio, and inflation. First, we estimate the conditional mean function using a fully-nonparametric smoother. Second, we take the squared residuals from step one and estimate the conditional variance function again with a local-linear technique. We find that the homoscedastic historical average gives an adequate approximation of the unobserved conditional variance for both the one-year and five-year horizon.View this paper.
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Articles (26)

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
15,355 Views
16 Pages

13 December 2019

This paper proposes a new method to model loss given default (LGD) for IFRS 9 purposes. We develop two models for the purposes of this paper—LGD1 and LGD2. The LGD1 model is applied to the non-default (performing) accounts and its empirical val...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Computational Methods for Risk Management in Economics and Finance)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
5,154 Views
31 Pages

Social Security Benefit Valuation, Risk, and Optimal Retirement

  • Yassmin Ali,
  • Ming Fang,
  • Pablo A. Arrutia Sota,
  • Stephen Taylor and
  • Xun Wang

13 December 2019

We develop valuation and risk techniques for the future benefits of a retiree who participates in the American Social Security program based on their chosen date of retirement, the term structure of interest rates, and forecasted life expectancy. The...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,945 Views
15 Pages

12 December 2019

The aim of this work is to assess systemic risk of Tunisian listed banks. The goal is to identify the institutions that contribute the most to systemic risk and that are most exposed to it. We use the CoVaR that considered the systemic risk as the va...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Computational Methods for Risk Management in Economics and Finance)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,882 Views
24 Pages

11 December 2019

This paper considers the Brownian perturbed Cramér–Lundberg risk model with a dividends barrier. We study various types of Padé approximations and Laguerre expansions to compute or approximate the scale function that is necessary...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Exit Problems for Lévy and Markov Processes with One-Sided Jumps and Related Topics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,399 Views
9 Pages

10 December 2019

In this paper, we study a stochastic control problem faced by an insurance company allowed to pay out dividends and make capital injections. As in (Løkka and Zervos (2008); Lindensjö and Lindskog (2019)), for a Brownian motion risk proces...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Exit Problems for Lévy and Markov Processes with One-Sided Jumps and Related Topics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
6,411 Views
20 Pages

A Likelihood Approach to Bornhuetter–Ferguson Analysis

  • Valandis Elpidorou,
  • Carolin Margraf,
  • María Dolores Martínez-Miranda and
  • Bent Nielsen

10 December 2019

A new Bornhuetter–Ferguson method is suggested herein. This is a variant of the traditional chain ladder method. The actuary can adjust the relative ultimates using externally estimated relative ultimates. These correspond to linear constraints...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Machine Learning in Insurance)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,197 Views
15 Pages

2 December 2019

We study the jump behaviour in the sovereign risks of major oil-exporting countries and examine whether it is affected by jumps in the price and volatility of crude oil. Data used are daily from 14 February 2011, to 31 July 2019. We detect the presen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,556 Views
21 Pages

19 November 2019

The Segerdahl-Tichy Process, characterized by exponential claims and state dependent drift, has drawn a considerable amount of interest, due to its economic interest (it is the simplest risk process which takes into account the effect of interest rat...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Exit Problems for Lévy and Markov Processes with One-Sided Jumps and Related Topics)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
8,028 Views
14 Pages

11 November 2019

This article is concerned with the study of the tail correlation among equity indices by means of dynamic copula functions. The main idea is to consider the impact of the use of copula functions in the accuracy of the model’s parameters and in...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Model Risk and Risk Measures)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
6,155 Views
25 Pages

On Market Share Drivers in the Swiss Mandatory Health Insurance Sector

  • Dalit Daily-Amir,
  • Hansjörg Albrecher,
  • Martin Bladt and
  • Joël Wagner

7 November 2019

In the mandatory health insurance market in Switzerland, a range of insurers offer policies that differ in characteristics like premium and service level while benefits are the same and regulated by law. In this paper, we give an overview of the mark...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
6,690 Views
11 Pages

Omnichannel Banking Economy

  • Sergey A. Vasiliev and
  • Eugene R. Serov

7 November 2019

In modern market conditions, customers who purchase banking products require a high level of service. In particular, they require continuous real-time service with the ability to instantly “switch” between service channels. The article an...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Quantitative Methods in Economics and Finance)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,069 Views
22 Pages

Conditional Variance Forecasts for Long-Term Stock Returns

  • Enno Mammen,
  • Jens Perch Nielsen,
  • Michael Scholz and
  • Stefan Sperlich

5 November 2019

In this paper, we apply machine learning to forecast the conditional variance of long-term stock returns measured in excess of different benchmarks, considering the short- and long-term interest rate, the earnings-by-price ratio, and the inflation ra...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Machine Learning in Insurance)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,558 Views
13 Pages

Market Risk Analysis of Energy in Vietnam

  • Ngoc Phu Tran,
  • Thang Cong Nguyen,
  • Duc Hong Vo and
  • Michael McAleer

4 November 2019

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate and estimate market risk for the ten major industries in Vietnam. The focus of the empirical analysis is on the energy sector, which has been designated as one of the four key industries, together with service...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Measuring and Modelling Financial Risk and Derivatives)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,494 Views
21 Pages

1 November 2019

In this paper, we solve the problem of mid price movements arising in high-frequency and algorithmic trading using real data. Namely, we introduce different new types of General Compound Hawkes Processes (GCHPDO, GCHP2SDO, GCHPnSDO) and find their di...

  • Article
  • Open Access
56 Citations
7,841 Views
18 Pages

1 November 2019

The study of connectedness is key to assess spillover effects and identify lead-lag relationships among market exchanges trading the same asset. By means of an extension of Diebold and Yilmaz (2012) econometric connectedness measures, we examined the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Financial Networks in Fintech Risk Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
8,657 Views
18 Pages

Credit Risk Migration and Economic Cycles

  • Camilla Ferretti,
  • Giampaolo Gabbi,
  • Piero Ganugi,
  • Federica Sist and
  • Pietro Vozzella

29 October 2019

The misestimation of rating transition probabilities may lead banks to lend money incoherently with borrowers’ default trajectory, causing both a deterioration in asset quality and higher system distress. Applying a Mover-Stayer model to determ...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Credit Risk Modeling and Management in Banking Business)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5,276 Views
16 Pages

28 October 2019

This paper investigates option valuation when the underlying market suffers from illiquidity of price impact. Using option data, I infer trading activities and price impacts on the buy side and the sell side in the stock market from option prices acr...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Measuring and Modelling Financial Risk and Derivatives)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6,903 Views
14 Pages

25 October 2019

The aggregation of individual risks into total risk using a weighting variable multiplied by two ratio variables representing incidence and intensity is an important task for risk professionals. For example, expected loss (EL) of a loan is the produc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,947 Views
16 Pages

20 October 2019

The purpose of this study is to examine the volatility-timing performance of Singapore-based funds under the Central Provident Fund (CPF) Investment Scheme and non-CPF linked funds by taking into account the currency risk effect on internationally ma...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Measuring and Modelling Financial Risk and Derivatives)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,531 Views
10 Pages

Three Essays on Stopping

  • Eberhard Mayerhofer

18 October 2019

First, we give a closed-form formula for first passage time of a reflected Brownian motion with drift. This corrects a formula by Perry et al. (2004). Second, we show that the maximum before a fixed drawdown is exponentially distributed for any drawd...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Exit Problems for Lévy and Markov Processes with One-Sided Jumps and Related Topics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,324 Views
18 Pages

14 October 2019

In this paper, we study a generalised CIR process with externally-exciting and self-exciting jumps, and focus on the distributional properties and applications of this process and its aggregated process. The aim of the paper is to introduce a more ge...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,140 Views
14 Pages

14 October 2019

We consider the Sparre Andersen risk process with interclaim times that belong to the class of distributions with rational Laplace transform. We construct error bounds for the ruin probability based on the Pollaczek–Khintchine formula, and deve...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Exit Problems for Lévy and Markov Processes with One-Sided Jumps and Related Topics)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
7,493 Views
36 Pages

12 October 2019

We present an approach to individual claims reserving and claim watching in general insurance based on classification and regression trees (CART). We propose a compound model consisting of a frequency section, for the prediction of events concerning...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Claim Models: Granular Forms and Machine Learning Forms)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
6,546 Views
20 Pages

1 October 2019

Global investors’ investment in local currency bonds, especially Korea Treasury Bonds, has increased significantly since the mid-2000s, and their influence on bonds and financial markets has grown consistently. In this paper, we investigate glo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Measuring and Modelling Financial Risk and Derivatives)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
5,117 Views
21 Pages

29 September 2019

Since the 2008–2009 financial crisis, banks have introduced a family of X-valuation adjustments (XVAs) to quantify the cost of counterparty risk and of its capital and funding implications. XVAs represent a switch of paradigm in derivative mana...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Credit Risk Modeling and Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
7,371 Views
17 Pages

A New Heavy Tailed Class of Distributions Which Includes the Pareto

  • Deepesh Bhati,
  • Enrique Calderín-Ojeda and
  • Mareeswaran Meenakshi

20 September 2019

In this paper, a new heavy-tailed distribution, the mixture Pareto-loggamma distribution, derived through an exponential transformation of the generalized Lindley distribution is introduced. The resulting model is expressed as a convex sum of the cla...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Loss Models: From Theory to Applications)
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