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Risks, Volume 9, Issue 2

February 2021 - 17 articles

Cover Story: This study found the most important variables that represent the future projections of the Bank of International Settlements’ capital adequacy ratio, which is the index of financial soundness in a bank as a comprehensive measure of capital adequacy. By using machine learning techniques, this study found 38 most important variables for representing the BIS capital adequacy ratio among 1929 variables. View this paper.
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Articles (17)

  • Article
  • Open Access
68 Citations
22,147 Views
23 Pages

20 February 2021

The growing trend in the number and severity of auto insurance claims creates a need for new methods to efficiently handle these claims. Machine learning (ML) is one of the methods that solves this problem. As car insurers aim to improve their custom...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
4,544 Views
20 Pages

20 February 2021

This study investigates the country-level determinants of liquidity synchronization and degrees of liquidity synchronization during economic growth volatility. As a non-diversifiable risk factor, liquidity co-movement shock spreads market-wide and th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,042 Views
19 Pages

20 February 2021

Index-based hedging solutions are used to transfer the longevity risk to the capital markets. However, mismatches between the liability of the hedger and the hedging instrument cause longevity basis risk. Therefore, an appropriate two-population mode...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
6,100 Views
16 Pages

Cardless Banking System in Malaysia: An Extended TAM

  • Qaisar Ali,
  • Shazia Parveen,
  • Hakimah Yaacob and
  • Zaki Zaini

15 February 2021

The main objective of this study is to analyse consumers’ behavioural intentions to use cardless banking technology in Malaysia. The intentions to use this technology are evaluated through an extended Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) framework. The...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,451 Views
22 Pages

Sensitivity of Performance Indexes to Disaster Risk

  • Jiro Hodoshima and
  • Toshiyuki Yamawake

13 February 2021

We examine how sensitive the new performance indexes incorporating high moments and disaster risk are to disaster risk. The new performance indexes incorporating high moments and disaster risk are the Aumann-Serrano performance index and Foster-Hart...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,672 Views
13 Pages

Tail Risk and Extreme Events: Connections between Oil and Clean Energy

  • Elisa Di Febo,
  • Matteo Foglia and
  • Eliana Angelini

11 February 2021

Do tail events in the oil market trigger extreme responses by the clean-energy financial market (and vice versa)? This paper investigates the relationship between oil price and clean-energy stock with a novel methodology, namely extreme events study....

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,666 Views
15 Pages

Developing a Risk Model for Assessment and Control of the Spread of COVID-19

  • Usama H. Issa,
  • Ashraf Balabel,
  • Mohammed Abdelhakeem and
  • Medhat M. A. Osman

9 February 2021

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) continues to spread rapidly all over the world challenging nearly all governments. The exact nature of COVID-19’s spread and risk factors for such a rapid spread are still imprecise as available data depend on conf...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,119 Views
17 Pages

Calibration of Transition Intensities for a Multistate Model: Application to Long-Term Care

  • Manuel L. Esquível,
  • Gracinda R. Guerreiro,
  • Matilde C. Oliveira and
  • Pedro Corte Real

8 February 2021

We consider a non-homogeneous continuous time Markov chain model for Long-Term Care with five states: the autonomous state, three dependent states of light, moderate and severe dependence levels and the death state. For a general approach, we allow f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,136 Views
19 Pages

Myopic Savings Behaviour of Future Polish Pensioners

  • Sonia Buchholtz,
  • Jan Gąska and
  • Marek Góra

6 February 2021

Low saving rates combined with low effective retirement age herald old-age poverty. This paper examines the preferred strategies of future Polish pensioners in order to sustain the standard of living in the future. A two-step approach is used: as a f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,875 Views
19 Pages

5 February 2021

This paper proposes an age-coherent sparse Vector Autoregression mortality model, which combines the appealing features of existing VAR-based mortality models, to forecast future mortality rates. In particular, the proposed model utilizes a data-driv...

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