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Dionne, Georges; Santugini, Marc - In: Risks : open access journal 3 (2015) 4, pp. 543-552

We extend the analysis on hedging with price and output uncertainty by endogenizing the output decision. Specifically, we consider the joint determination of output and hedging in the case of flexibility in production. We show that the risk-averse firm always maintains a short position in the...

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The interaction between banking sector and financial technology companies : qualitative assessment - a case of Lithuania

Pu, Ruihui; Teresiene, Deimante; Pieczulis, Ina; Kong, Jie - In: Risks : open access journal 9 (2021) 1/21, pp. 1-22

The role of financial technology companies increases every day. From one side this process generates more possibilities for consumers from other side it is related with new risks which arise in banking sector. At the beginning of FinTech era lots of analyst were discussing about disruptive...

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Volatility spillovers among sovereign credit default swaps of emerging economies and their determinants

Aljarba, Shumok; Naifar, Nader; Almeshal, Khalid - In: Risks : open access journal 12 (2024) 4, pp. 1-17

This paper aims to investigate the volatility spillovers among selected emerging economies' sovereign credit default swaps (SCDSs), including those of Saudi Arabia, Russia, China, Indonesia, South Africa, Brazil, Mexico, and Turkey. Using data from January 2010 to July 2023, we apply the...

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A two-account life insurance model for scenario-based valuation including event risk

Jensen, Ninna Reitzel; Schomacker, Kristian Juul - In: Risks : open access journal 3 (2015) 2, pp. 183-218

Using a two-account model with event risk, we model life insurance contracts taking into account both guaranteed and non-guaranteed payments in participating life insurance as well as in unit-linked insurance. Here, event risk is used as a generic term for life insurance events, such as death,...

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The impact of guarantees on the performance of pension saving schemes : insights from the literature

Bohnert, Alexander - In: Risks : open access journal 3 (2015) 4, pp. 515-542

Guarantees are often seen as the key characteristics of pension saving products, but securing them can become costly … deal with the question of how costly the typical types of guarantees are, in the sense that they reduce a pension saving … literature studying the impact of point-to-point guarantees and cliquet-style interest rate guarantees on the performance of …

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Portfolio construction by using different risk models: a comparison among diverse economic scenarios

Hunjra, Ahmed Imran; Alawi, Suha Mahmoud; Colombage, Sisira - In: Risks : open access journal 8 (2020) 4/126, pp. 1-23

We aim to construct portfolios by employing different risk models and compare their performance in order to understand their appropriateness for effective portfolio management for investors. Mean variance (MV), semi variance (SV), mean absolute deviation (MaD) and conditional value at risk...

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Custom v. standardized risk models

Kakushadze, Zura; Liew, Jim Kyung-Soo - In: Risks : open access journal 3 (2015) 2, pp. 112-138

We discuss when and why custom multi-factor risk models are warranted and give source code for computing some risk factors. Pension/mutual funds do not require customization but standardization. However, using standardized risk models in quant trading with much shorter holding horizons is...

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Evaluating risk measures and capital allocations based on multi-losses driven by a heavy-tailed background risk : the multivariate Pareto-II model

Asimit, Alexandru V.; Vernic, Raluca; Zitikis, Riċardas - In: Risks : open access journal 1 (2013) 1, pp. 14-33

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 distribution of the second kind, which is an attractive...

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Optimal deterministic investment strategies for insurers

Bäuerle, Nicole; Rieder, Ulrich - In: Risks : open access journal 1 (2013) 3, pp. 101-118

We consider an insurance company whose risk reserve is given by a Brownian motion with drift and which is able to invest the money into a Black–Scholes financial market. As optimization criteria, we treat mean-variance problems, problems with other risk measures, exponential utility and the...

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Optimal reinsurance : a risk sharing approach

Balbás de la Corte, Alejandro; Balbas, Beatriz; … - In: Risks : open access journal 1 (2013) 2, pp. 45-56

conservative risk measures. The stability in the large of the optimal sharing plan guarantees that “the global ruin caveat” may be …

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