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Risks, Volume 9, Issue 5

May 2021 - 21 articles

Cover Story: Increasing retirement ages in an automatic or scheduled way with life expectancy is a popular pension policy response to ageing. The choice of a cohort over period life expectancy measure affects the policy outcomes. Using model combinations to tackle model risk, the authors forecast that countries will have to deal with the need for substantial increases in the pension age in the next decades, particularly in countries targeting a constant period in retirement. View this paper.
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Articles (21)

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
9,702 Views
20 Pages

The Impact of the Development of Society on Economic and Financial Crime. Case Study for European Union Member States

  • Monica Violeta Achim,
  • Viorela Ligia Văidean,
  • Sorin Nicolae Borlea and
  • Decebal Remus Florescu

18 May 2021

Economic and financial crime is closely related to the changes and the development of societies. In this paper, we question whether the types of economic and financial crimes change as the society develops or not. For our purpose, we use the sample o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,662 Views
21 Pages

18 May 2021

The major focus of this paper is on the sovereign–banks relationship following the COVID-19 pandemic crisis outbreak, with a view to gaining an insight into banks’ exposure to the sovereign. We rely on a series of complementary research approaches, s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,259 Views
19 Pages

18 May 2021

In this paper we study the effect that mean-reverting components in the arithmetic dynamics of electricity spot price have on the price of a call option on a swap. Our model allows for seasonal effects, spikes, and negative values of the price of ele...

  • Article
  • Open Access
77 Citations
19,508 Views
27 Pages

Impact of Fintech on Bank Risk-Taking: Evidence from China

  • Liurui Deng,
  • Yongbin Lv,
  • Ye Liu and
  • Yiwen Zhao

18 May 2021

This article focuses on the relationship between Fintech and bank risk-taking behavior. Since Robo-Advisor is one of the mature applications of Fintech, we found that the development of Fintech will have a greater impact on small and medium-sized ban...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,541 Views
8 Pages

13 May 2021

The aim of the study was to compare children with ASD from families with low and medium financial status in terms of quality of life and coping with stress during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic and the material status of the family related to their financia...

  • Article
  • Open Access
36 Citations
10,063 Views
28 Pages

Automatic Indexation of the Pension Age to Life Expectancy: When Policy Design Matters

  • Mercedes Ayuso,
  • Jorge M. Bravo,
  • Robert Holzmann and
  • Edward Palmer

13 May 2021

Increasing retirement ages in an automatic or scheduled way with increasing life expectancy at retirement is a popular pension policy response to continuous longevity improvements. The question addressed here is: to what extent is simply adopting thi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,427 Views
12 Pages

12 May 2021

Credit risk exposure evaluation is driven by the quality of the information available on the debtors and customers with multiple lending exposures, which could be evaluated differently by different lenders. The existence of an information asymmetry a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
6,606 Views
7 Pages

11 May 2021

Forecasting of LME (London Metal Exchange) nickel prices remains an interesting topic but lacks consensus. This study aims to fill knowledge gaps by demonstrating the announcement effect of export bans by the Indonesian government. This article focus...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,569 Views
16 Pages

Revisiting Investability of Heritage Properties through Indexation and Portfolio Frontier Analysis

  • Chin Tiong Cheng,
  • Gabriel Hoh Teck Ling,
  • Yee-Siang Gan,
  • Wai Fang Wong and
  • Kong Seng Lai

10 May 2021

In recent years, the soaring prices of heritage properties in Georgetown, Penang have gained the attention of practitioners and investors. The practitioners claim that the prices of heritage properties within the core and buffer zones in Georgetown h...

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