We introduce a minimum spanning tree framework to describe the risk dependencies and interactions of both total and idiosyncratic risk in the energy sector. We apply the framework to equity and CDS spread data of 51 domestic and 116 international energy firms, both non-renewable and renewable,...

We develop a flexible forward contracting mechanism for renewable generators with intermittent and uncertain power supply. Such a contract allows the renewable generators to engage in forward contracts in day-ahead markets with flexible loads. In our proposed contracting mechanism, the renewable...

The paper investigates whether one can learn about the degree of climate risk exposure of firms by extracting information about their fundamentals and network connections and applying innovative graph-based artificial intelligence (AI) methodologies. We tackle this problem by creating a...

The paper introduces a new methodology to quantify the risk posed by climate change on firms. Our climate change impact indicator (CCII) uses a statistical methodology to measure the impact of climate change in terms of the interaction between long-term trend characteristics of publicly listed...

Renewable generation is inherently stochastic. We develop a risk mitigation strategy by applying principles of securitization to the stochastic generation of wind and solar resources. We demonstrate the design of a risk-free tranche for the renewable assets as a risk-free service, which the...

Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs), based on blockchain technology, has been used for crowdfunding ventures since 2015. Blockchain technology promises to address many challenges faced by the financial sector, however, in the past few years, many fraudulent undertakings in this space have raised...

In this paper, we examine the impact of regulation on the risk culture of U.S. insurance firms, to address the refocused attention on federal insurance regulations after the 2008 financial crisis. To better understand the risk culture of insurers, we apply textual analysis and unsupervised...

In a highly interconnected financial economy, deciphering co-dependencies between asset prices and their time-varying dynamics is challenging and important for sound financial decisions. This paper develops a framework to study dynamic features of a financial network, that incorporates...

This paper presents a new framework to model and calibrate the process of firm value evolution when an unanticipated exogenous event impacting one firm can contagiously affect other firms. The nature of propagation of such contagion is determined by the underlying connections between firms,...