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14 September 2025

This study derives explicit expressions for the Tail Conditional Expectation (TCE) and Tail Variance (TV) within the framework of the extended generalized skew-elliptical (EGSE) distribution. The EGSE family generalizes the class of elliptical distri...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Modeling, Analysis and Optimization for Mathematical Finance, Economics and Risks, 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
7,415 Views
21 Pages

1 July 2021

In the presence of reinsurance, an insurer may effectively reduce its (aggregated) loss by partially ceding such a loss to a reinsurer. Stop-loss and quota-share reinsurance contracts are commonly agreed between these two parties. In this paper, we a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,350 Views
17 Pages

24 June 2021

Recently, there seems to be an increasing amount of interest in the use of the tail conditional expectation (TCE) as a useful measure of risk associated with a production process, for example, in the measurement of risk associated with stock returns...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Mathematics and Statistics with Applications in Engineering and Industry)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,771 Views
13 Pages

Conditional Tail Expectation and Premium Calculation under Asymmetric Loss

  • Enrique Calderín-Ojeda,
  • Emilio Gómez-Déniz and
  • Francisco J. Vázquez-Polo

19 May 2023

In this paper, we calculate premiums that are based on the Conditional Tail Expectation (CTE) and asymmetric loss functions to account for the risk of both underestimation and overestimation losses. After selecting an appropriate loss function, the p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,632 Views
11 Pages

28 March 2021

The class of log-elliptical distributions is well used and studied in risk measurement and actuarial science. The reason is that risks are often skewed and positive when they describe pure risks, i.e., risks in which there is no possibility of profit...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Symmetry and Asymmetry in Multivariate Statistics and Data Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
744 Views
19 Pages

This paper compares higher-order co-moment functionals (co-skewness and co-kurtosis) with conditional tail-risk measures, namely Co-Expected Shortfall (CoES) and Co-Value at Risk (CoVaR), within a unified coherence-based framework. On the theoretical...

(This article belongs to the Section Mathematics and Finance)
  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
6,985 Views
20 Pages

5 March 2013

Evaluating risk measures, premiums, and capital allocation based on dependent multi-losses is a notoriously difficult task. In this paper, we demonstrate how this can be successfully accomplished when losses follow the multivariate Pareto distributio...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
80 Views
37 Pages

4 November 2026

Quantile-oriented sensitivity analysis (QOSA) requires repeated evaluation of conditional quantiles over many conditioning states. A four-moment Hermite model yields closed-form quantiles, but its published two-branch form has a local admissibility g...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Flexible Parametric Distributions for Modeling Skewness and Kurtosis)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
6,009 Views
26 Pages

Dependence on Tail Copula

  • Paramahansa Pramanik

3 April 2024

In real-world scenarios, we encounter non-exchangeable dependence structures. Our primary focus is on identifying and quantifying non-exchangeability in the tails of joint distributions. The findings and methodologies presented in this study are part...

(This article belongs to the Section Computer Science & Mathematics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,454 Views
25 Pages

Analysis and Forecasting of Risk in Count Processes

  • Annika Homburg,
  • Christian H. Weiß,
  • Gabriel Frahm,
  • Layth C. Alwan and
  • Rainer Göb

Risk measures are commonly used to prepare for a prospective occurrence of an adverse event. If we are concerned with discrete risk phenomena such as counts of natural disasters, counts of infections by a serious disease, or counts of certain economi...

(This article belongs to the Section Risk)
  • Article
  • Open Access
771 Views
19 Pages

31 March 2025

In this paper, we study an extension of the classical compound Poisson risk model with a dependence structure among the inter-claim time and the subsequent claim size. Under a flexible dependence structure and assuming that the claim amounts are heav...

(This article belongs to the Section D1: Probability and Statistics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,399 Views
12 Pages

Prediction of 24-h and 6-h Periods before Calving Using a Multimodal Tail-Attached Device Equipped with a Thermistor and 3-Axis Accelerometer through Supervised Machine Learning

  • Shogo Higaki,
  • Yoshitaka Matsui,
  • Yosuke Sasaki,
  • Keiko Takahashi and ,
  • Kazuyuki Honkawa,
  • Yoichiro Horii,
  • Tomoya Minamino,
  • Tomoko Suda and
  • Koji Yoshioka
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

16 August 2022

In this study, we developed calving prediction models for 24-h and 6-h periods before calving using data on physiological (tail skin temperature) and behavioral (activity intensity, lying time, posture change, and tail raising) parameters obtained us...

(This article belongs to the Section Cattle)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,240 Views
14 Pages

Study on Reductive Smelting of High-Iron Red Mud for Iron Recovery

  • Xuewei Yang,
  • Xin Chen,
  • Tingan Zhang,
  • Jiayuan Ye and ,
  • Guozhi Lv and
  • Jinshan Zhang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

8 April 2022

In this paper, the characteristics and current problems associated with red mud and the progress of research on iron extraction from high-iron red mud are briefly described. By adding conditioning materials to red mud and quenching and tempering, the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Slag Metallurgy)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,097 Views
26 Pages

30 May 2022

Dependent Tail Value-at-Risk, abbreviated as DTVaR, is a copula-based extension of Tail Value-at-Risk (TVaR). This risk measure is an expectation of a target loss once the loss and its associated loss are above their respective quantiles but bounded...

  • Article
  • Open Access
982 Views
22 Pages

13 November 2025

We introduce and study the shortfall of tail-based entropy (STE), a tail-sensitive risk functional that combines expected shortfall (ES) and tail-based entropy (TE). Beyond the tail mean, STE imposes a rank-dependent penalty on tail variability, ther...

(This article belongs to the Section Information Theory, Probability and Statistics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,450 Views
34 Pages

This paper develops a quantitative framework for climate–financial risk measurement that combines a spatially explicit jump–diffusion asset–loss model with prudentially aligned risk metrics. The approach connects regional physical h...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Climate and Financial Markets)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
6,670 Views
29 Pages

This paper investigates the dynamic evolution of tail risk interdependence among U.S. banks, financial services and insurance sectors. Life and non-life insurers have been considered separately to account for their different characteristics. The tail...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,284 Views
24 Pages

16 June 2020

In the context of the frequent occurrence of extreme events, measuring the tail dependence of financial time series is essential for maintaining the sustainable development of financial markets. In this paper, a multiscale quantile correlation coeffi...

(This article belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
430 Views
47 Pages

Financial returns have heavy tails and nonzero skewness. Machine learning risk models typically return isolated quantiles or rest on thin-tailed laws. We introduce a skewed, heavy-tailed distribution that is as easy to use as the normal and that conv...

(This article belongs to the Collection AI and Data-Driven Quantitative Finance)
  • Article
  • Open Access
470 Views
21 Pages

3 September 2026

We compare three families of Value-at-Risk and expected shortfall estimators—rolling historical simulation, GARCH(1,1) filtered historical simulation (FHS), and a walk-forward multi-quantile LSTM—on identical, strictly out-of-sample footi...

(This article belongs to the Section Macroeconomics, Monetary Economics, and Financial Markets)
  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
3,023 Views
26 Pages

Risk Analysis and Estimation of a Bimodal Heavy-Tailed Burr XII Model in Insurance Data: Exploring Multiple Methods and Applications

  • Haitham M. Yousof,
  • S. I. Ansari,
  • Yusra Tashkandy,
  • Walid Emam and ,
  • M. Masoom Ali,
  • Mohamed Ibrahim and
  • Salwa L. Alkhayyat
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

Actuarial risks can be analyzed using heavy-tailed distributions, which provide adequate risk assessment. Key risk indicators, such as value-at-risk, tailed-value-at-risk (conditional tail expectation), tailed-variance, tailed-mean-variance, and mean...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Distribution Theory and Application)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,882 Views
13 Pages

26 August 2019

In this paper, by developing a mathematical model, the temperature of PSCs under different operating conditions has been calculated. It is found that by reducing the density of tail states at the interfaces through some passivation mechanisms, the op...

(This article belongs to the Section Energy Materials)
  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
5,513 Views
19 Pages

Evolution of Sulfidic Legacy Mine Tailings: A Review of the Wheal Maid Site, UK

  • Verity Fitch,
  • Anita Parbhakar-Fox,
  • Richard Crane and
  • Laura Newsome

1 July 2022

Historic tailings dams and their associated mine waste can pose a significant risk to human and environmental health. The Wheal Maid mine site, Cornwall, UK, serves as an example of the temporal evolution of a tailings storage facility after mining h...

(This article belongs to the Section Environmental Mineralogy and Biogeochemistry)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,936 Views
10 Pages

Description of a Dynamical Framework to Analyse the Helicopter Tail Rotor

  • Salvador Castillo-Rivera and
  • Maria Tomas-Rodriguez

12 October 2021

In this work, a tail rotor is modelled with the aid of a multibody software to provide an alternative tool in the field of helicopter research. This advanced application captures the complex behaviour of tail rotor dynamics. The model has been built...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,065 Views
20 Pages

2 September 2021

The Fundamental Review of the Trading Book is a market risk measurement and management regulation recently issued by the Basel Committee. This reform, often referred to as “Basel IV”, intends to strengthen the financial system. The newest capital sta...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applied Mathematical Methods in Financial Risk Management)
  • Technical Note
  • Open Access
10 Citations
6,651 Views
15 Pages

The tailings that remain after the collection and screening of Mn nodules are directly discharged into the ocean and are anticipated to influence the ocean environment and marine organisms. The primary factors determining the influence (diffusion) ra...

(This article belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
6,043 Views
21 Pages

9 July 2021

This study investigates the dependence between extreme returns of West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude oil prices and the Crude Oil Volatility Index (OVX) changes as well as the predictive power of OVX to generate accurate Value at Risk (VaR) forecast...

(This article belongs to the Section C: Energy Economics and Policy)
  • Article
  • Open Access
333 Views
25 Pages

5 September 2026

In this paper, we establish the convergence rates for the law of large numbers and the law of the logarithm for identically distributed random variables with either negative dependence or independence in the framework of sub-linear expectation. We pr...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mathematical Modeling for Economics and Finance: Probability, Stochastic Processes, and Differential Equations)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,097 Views
10 Pages

We investigate pairwise stochastic comparisons of stationary solutions to the linear recurrence Xt+1=AtXt+Bt, where At and Bt are non-negative random variables. We establish novel order-preserving properties, which enable us to obtain comparison theo...

(This article belongs to the Section Macroeconomics, Monetary Economics, and Financial Markets)
  • Article
  • Open Access
467 Views
25 Pages

19 May 2026

Accurate tail-risk measurement in carbon markets is challenging because carbon allowance prices are shaped not only by heavy-tailed return dynamics, but also by policy changes that can alter the underlying risk dynamics. Models that ignore such struc...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mathematical Modelling in Financial Economics)
  • Technical Note
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,942 Views
9 Pages

28 July 2024

Rock weirs, typically created by the placement of loose rocks, are eco-friendly hydraulic structures used for raising the upstream water level, which has benefits for irrigation, shipping, and grade control. Although rock weirs are frequently submerg...

(This article belongs to the Topic Research on River Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,031 Views
12 Pages

Morpho-Functional Characterisation of the Rat Ventral Caudal Nerve in a Model of Axonal Peripheral Neuropathy

  • Eleonora Pozzi,
  • Laura Monza,
  • Elisa Ballarini,
  • Mario Bossi and ,
  • Virginia Rodriguez-Menendez,
  • Annalisa Canta,
  • Alessia Chiorazzi,
  • Valentina Alda Carozzi,
  • Luca Crippa and
  • Paola Alberti
  • + 7 authors+ 2 authors

14 January 2023

Peripheral Neuropathies (PN) are common conditions whose treatment is still lacking in most cases. Animal models are crucial, but experimental procedures should be refined in some cases. We performed a detailed characterization of the ventral caudal...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Latest Advances in Neuroscience)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,130 Views
18 Pages

19 January 2026

Early diagnosis of heat load in beef cattle remains a challenge due to the limited understanding of behaviour-based indicators. This preliminary longitudinal study aimed to validate behavioural and physiological responses previously identified as hea...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Wearable Technologies for Enhancing Health, Behavior Monitoring, and Welfare in Animals)
  • Article
  • Open Access
806 Views
39 Pages

3 July 2026

Carbon pricing is central to China’s low-carbon transition, and its effectiveness is tied to the carbon market’s links with commodities. This paper examines state-dependent return connectedness between China’s national carbon emissi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
1,170 Views
35 Pages

A New G Family: Properties, Characterizations, Different Estimation Methods and PORT-VaR Analysis for U.K. Insurance Claims and U.S. House Prices Data Sets

  • Ahmad M. AboAlkhair,
  • G. G. Hamedani,
  • Nazar Ali Ahmed,
  • Mohamed Ibrahim and ,
  • Mohammad A. Zayed and
  • Haitham M. Yousof
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

26 September 2025

This paper introduces a new class of probability distributions, termed the generated log exponentiated polynomial (GLEP) family, designed to enhance flexibility in modeling complex real financial data. The proposed family is constructed through a nov...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Statistical Methods for Forecasting and Risk Analysis)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
865 Views
42 Pages

Portfolio Optimization and Tail-Risk Analytics of Actively Managed ETFs

  • William Wilson Lamptey,
  • Nicholas Appiah,
  • Abootaleb Shirvani,
  • Priscilla Ati-Tay and ,
  • Svetlozar T. Rachev and
  • Frank J. Fabozzi
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

This paper examines portfolio optimization and tail-risk analytics for a heterogeneous universe of 30 actively managed investment funds using daily Bloomberg data from 2020 to 2025. The study compares buy-and-hold, mean–variance, conditional va...

(This article belongs to the Section Risk)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,610 Views
12 Pages

6 June 2023

The White-tailed eagle, an apex predator, is currently recovering its populations across Europe and has already reached high numbers in many countries. This led to the saturation of eagles in optimal habitats and their encroachment on suboptimal ones...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Conservation and Ecology of Raptors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,618 Views
33 Pages

29 December 2025

Raw material price volatility, freight rates, and foreign exchange all pose significant uncertainty for lithium-ion battery manufacturers, jeopardising procurement planning and financial stability. In this paper, we formulate a discrete Conditional V...

  • Article
  • Open Access
552 Views
21 Pages

5 July 2026

The scheduling of crude oil operations in marine refineries is a complex combinatorial problem, exacerbated by stochastic disruptions like vessel delays and port congestion. Traditional deterministic and expected-value approaches fail to mitigate hig...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,057 Views
20 Pages

Near-Record Values in Discrete Random Sequences

  • Miguel Lafuente,
  • Raúl Gouet,
  • F. Javier López and
  • Gerardo Sanz

13 July 2022

Given a sequence (Xn) of random variables, Xn is said to be a near-record if Xn∈(Mn−1−a,Mn−1], where Mn=max{X1,…,Xn} and a>0 is a parameter. We investigate the point process η on [0,∞) of near-record values...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,481 Views
13 Pages

This study investigates the properties of risk measure, value at risk (VaR) and conditional VaR (CVaR), using high-frequency Bitcoin data. These data allow us to conduct a high statistical analysis. Our findings reveal a disparity in VaR and CVaR val...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Featured Papers in Mathematics and Finance)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
6,711 Views
21 Pages

16 December 2016

In this paper, we consider compositions of conditional risk measures in order to obtain time-consistent dynamic risk measures and determine the solvency capital of a life insurer selling pension liabilities or a pension fund with a single cash-flow a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Actuarial and Financial Risks in Life Insurance, Pensions and Household Finance)
  • Article
  • Open Access
478 Views
34 Pages

Portfolio Optimization for Commodity ETFs Under Heavy-Tailed Returns

  • Nicholas Appiah,
  • Ali Jaffri,
  • Dilmi C. W. Hettiachchi-Halpe-Kankanamalage and
  • Svetlozar T. Rachev

This paper examined whether portfolio-objective choice or forecasting complexity was more consequential in heavy-tailed commodity ETF allocation. Using daily Bloomberg data for 30 U.S.-listed commodity ETFs from 12 December 2018 to 16 December 2024,...

(This article belongs to the Section Risk)
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  • Open Access
953 Views
22 Pages

18 June 2026

Randomized reward mechanisms are often described as repeated trials with a fixed success probability. This constant-hazard reference case is symmetric in the limited finite-state sense that, conditional on non-absorption, the next-draw success probab...

(This article belongs to the Section B: Mathematics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
617 Views
34 Pages

Cryptocurrency holdings in conventional portfolios challenge the empirical adequacy of standard tail-risk estimators. This study identifies a calibration mechanism that brings feature-based machine learning to supervisory-grade value at risk (VaR) co...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Digital Finance and Economic Innovations)
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  • Open Access
3,565 Views
14 Pages

2 October 2024

This work aims to evaluate the use of a superabsorbent polymer (SAP) to provide improvements in the handling properties of iron ore tailings (IOT). The material studied came from the magnetic separation reprocessing of the material discarded at the G...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Envisioning the Future of Mining, 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,392 Views
29 Pages

In this paper, we let the data speak for itself about the existence of volatility feedback and the often debated risk–return relationship. We do this by modeling the contemporaneous relationship between market excess returns and log-realized va...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Nonparametric Econometric Methods and Application)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
8,287 Views
15 Pages

On the condition that both futures and options exist in the markets for hedging, this paper examines the optimal hedging strategy under price risk and background risk. Compared with the previous research, which has studied options hedging against bas...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,274 Views
15 Pages

14 November 2020

In this article, the slashed Lomax distribution is introduced, which is an asymmetric distribution and can be used for fitting thick-tailed datasets. Various properties are explored, such as the density function, hazard rate function, Renyi entropy,...

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