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Focus on fair lending has become more intensified recently as bank and non-bank lenders apply artificial-intelligence (AI)-based credit determination approaches. The data analytics technique behind AI and machine learning (ML) has proven to be powerful in many application areas. However, ML can...
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The core of risk aggregation in the Solvency II Standard Formula is the so-called square root formula. We argue that it should be seen as a means for the aggregation of different risks to an overall risk rather than being associated with variance-covariance based risk analysis. Considering the...
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There are many real-world situations in which complex interacting forces are best described by a series of equations. Traditional regression approaches to these situations involve modeling and estimating each individual equation (producing estimates of "partial derivatives") and then solving the...
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behavioural biases such as representativeness, self-serving, overconfidence, loss aversion, and hindsight bias. Using data … overconfidence bias are positively related to financial literacy. Furthermore, some biases exhibit a stronger quantitative … relationship with financial literacy than others. For example, hindsight bias displays the strongest link to financial literacy …
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stage one is positive by using log-linear regression. Secondly, we correct the bias that results from the transformation … apply the smearing technique in order to correct this bias. An alternative means of implementing the PBS approach is to use … almost completely eliminates the bias; (3) NLLS gives biased option values, but the bias is less severe than with standard …
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Unintended bias against protected groups has become a key obstacle to the widespread adoption of machine learning …
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, which seeks to smooth consumption over the lifecycle. We explain how two psychological biases-exponential growth bias and … present bias-can lead to a difference between the initial value of a pension contribution and its present value, such a …
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Technological progress in recent years has made new methods available for making forecasts in a variety of areas. We examine the success of ex-ante stock market forecasts of three major stock market indices, i.e., the German Stock Market Index (DAX), the Dow Jones Industrial Index (DJI), and the...
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Observed international diversification implies an investment home bias (IHB). Can bivariate preferences with a local …
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Copula modelling is a popular tool in analysing the dependencies between variables. Copula modelling allows the investigation of tail dependencies, which is of particular interest in risk and survival applications. Copula modelling is also of specific interest to economic and financial modelling...
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