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Risks, Volume 8, Issue 2

June 2020 - 35 articles

Cover Story: The insureds’ decisions to opt for a specific insurance plan and level of deductible depend on observed and unobserved characteristics. The aim of the research by Kalouguina and Wagner is to understand the correlation between insurance plan choices and lifestyle through health and medical care consumption in the setting of Swiss mandatory health insurance. View this paper
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Articles (35)

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
5,746 Views
21 Pages

Heads and Tails of Earnings Management: Quantitative Analysis in Emerging Countries

  • Pavol Durana,
  • Katarina Valaskova,
  • Darina Chlebikova,
  • Vladislav Krastev and
  • Irina Atanasova

1 June 2020

Earnings management is a globally used tool for long-term profitable enterprises and for the apparatus of reduction of bankruptcy risk in developed countries. This phenomenon belongs to the integral and fundamental part of their business finance. How...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,252 Views
16 Pages

1 June 2020

This paper investigates dynamic correlations of stock–bond returns for different stock indices and bond maturities. Evidence in the US shows that stock–bond relations are time-varying and display a negative trend. The stock–bond correlations are nega...

  • Editorial
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,844 Views
2 Pages

Special Issue “Machine Learning in Insurance”

  • Vali Asimit,
  • Ioannis Kyriakou and
  • Jens Perch Nielsen

25 May 2020

It is our pleasure to prologue the special issue on “Machine Learning in Insurance”, which represents a compilation of ten high-quality articles discussing avant-garde developments or introducing new theoretical or practical advances in t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
6,955 Views
16 Pages

Diversification and Desynchronicity: An Organizational Portfolio Perspective on Corporate Risk Reduction

  • Xue-Feng Shao,
  • Kostas Gouliamos,
  • Ben Nan-Feng Luo,
  • Shigeyuki Hamori,
  • Stephen Satchell,
  • Xiao-Guang Yue and
  • Jane Qiu

22 May 2020

A longstanding objective of managers is to reduce risk to their businesses. The conventional strategy for risk reduction is diversification; however, evidence for the effectiveness of diversification remains inconclusive. According to Organizational...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
5,590 Views
22 Pages

22 May 2020

Banks play a vital role in strengthening the financial system of a country; hence, their survival is decisive for the stability of national economies. Therefore, analyzing the survival probability of the banks is an essential and continuing research...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,130 Views
21 Pages

22 May 2020

This paper examines the impact of the parameters of the distribution of the time at which a bank’s client defaults on their obligated payments, on the Lundberg adjustment coefficient, the upper and lower bounds of the ruin probability. We study...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
5,141 Views
18 Pages

21 May 2020

Calibration is a highly challenging task, in particular in multiple yield curve markets. This paper is a first attempt to study the chances and challenges of the application of machine learning techniques for this. We employ Gaussian process regressi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
5,208 Views
29 Pages

21 May 2020

The paper proposes a novel computational impact analysis framework to proactively manage dynamic constraints and optimally promote the inception of central banks’ regulatory policies. Currently, central banks are encountering contradictory chal...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,618 Views
13 Pages

18 May 2020

In this paper, we test the efficiency of least-squares Monte Carlo method to estimate capital requirements in life insurance. We choose a simplified Gaussian evaluation framework where closed-form formulas are available and allow us to obtain solid b...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,650 Views
28 Pages

14 May 2020

After a brief overview of aspects of computational risk management, the implementation of the rearrangement algorithm in R is considered as an example from computational risk management practice. This algorithm is used to compute the largest quantile...

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