A Time Series Approach to Explainability for Neural Nets with Applications to Risk‑Management

"We here propose a novel XAI [eXplainable AI] technique for deep learning methods (DL) which preserves and exploits the natural time ordering of the data. Simple applications to financial data illustrate the potential of the new approach in the context of risk-management and fraud-detection."

Climate Risk, ESG Performance, and ESG Sentiment for U.S. Commercial Banks

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"Climate risk is positively associated with the environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance of banks and negatively associated with the stakeholder ESG sentiment towards them. Negative sentiment due to such exposure is associated with worse financial performance and lower stock returns, but stronger ESG performance mitigates these adverse effects."

The ECB Single Supervisory Mechanism: Effects on Bank Performance and Capital Requirements

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"Under the Single Supervisory Mechanism (SSM) introduced in 2014, the European Central Bank directly supervises significant euro area banks, which hold about 82% of total banking assets. We find that this important supervisory change has positive effects on the return on assets and the return on risk-weighted assets of SSM banks without increasing the risk weights used to calculate regulatory capital."

The Politics of Regulating Artificial Intelligence Technologies: A Competition State Perspective

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"As often in new regulatory domains, there is a tendency both of re-inventing the wheel – by disregarding insights from neighboring policy domains (e.g. nano-technology or aviation) – and of creating silos of research – by failing to link up and systematize existing accounts in a wider context of regulatory scholarship."

Estimation of Systemic Shortfall Risk Measure using Stochastic Algorithms

" In this paper, we use stochastic algorithms schemes in estimating MSRM [market data based systemic risk measure] and prove that the resulting estimators are consistent and asymptotically normal. We also test numerically the performance of these algorithms on several examples."

Cyber Risk: Hyperconnectivity and the Political Economy of Uncertainty

"This paper explores the notion of ‘cyber risk’, asking how we might understand it through a sociotechnical lens. It pays specific attention to how we can theorise cyber risk as an assemblage of sociotechnical ‘riskscapes’, in which our understanding of risk goes beyond organisational imperatives of ‘risk management’ and into treating cyber risk as a set of productive knowledges and practices within a political economy of uncertainty."