In their pioneering research, Becker, Landes and Michael (1977) found that beyond age 30 there is a positive relationship between women's age at first marriage and marital instability. They interpreted this finding as a "poor-match" effect emerging as the biological clock begins to tick. In...

In their pioneering research, Becker, Landes and Michael (1977) found that beyond age 30 there is a positive relationship between women's age at first marriage and marital instability. They interpreted this finding as a poor-match effect emerging as the biological clock begins to tick. In...

For risk management, implementing risk measures and backtesting them are essential tasks. Since the expected shortfall (ES) possesses coherence and tail sensitivity, the Basel Committee has raised the option to replace the classical risk measure value-at-risk (VaR) with ES. However, the...