"Our main purpose is to provide a convenient analytic model that explains both the pattern of observed customer behavior and the pattern of insurance contracts most often observed in practice: these consist of menus of several deductible-premium pairs, or menus of insurance with coverage limits-premium pairs."
"Our findings offer new evidence on how economic shocks transmit to banking industry losses with implications for risk management and supervision."
" I develop a firm-level measure of supply chain risk exposure from a novel source of unstructured data---managers' discussions of supply chain-related topics during earnings conference calls and Q&A sessions---using textual analysis techniques including seeded word embedding and bag-of-words-based content analysis."
"The objective of this paper is to discuss the underlying principles and assumptions of valuation under Solvency II and to analyse concepts such as the best estimate and the cost-of-capital risk margin, hedgeable and non-hedgeable risks, market value of risk, as well as economic capital and expected and unexpected losses."
" A model is set up which assumes that banks’ decisions regarding capital and risk are made endogenously in a dynamic pattern."
"Contrary to the conventional wisdom, we find that the client tends to spend fewer corporate resources on precision with audit risk disclosure. As a result of lower precision, audit risk disclosure may lower the informativeness of audited financial reports, albeit ex-post communicating more information to the market. We also find that audit risk disclosure reduces the client's ex-ante payoff when the auditor bears a high misstatement cost due to audit failure."
"This paper considers the question from a non-technical point of view and surveys the regulatory requirements for capital adequacy contained in the so-called Basel framework. It analyses all contributing parts of the Capital Adequacy Ratio (CAR), including regulatory capital, credit risk, market risk and operational risk, raising in each case the concerns of the literature as well as recent contributions."
"We argue that simply pooling data across banks treats banks equally but is subject to two deficiencies: it may distort the impact of legitimate portfolio features, and it is vulnerable to implicit misdirection of legitimate information to infer bank identity. We compare various notions of regression fairness to address these deficiencies, considering both forecast accuracy and equal treatment. In the setting of linear models, we argue for estimating and then discarding centered bank fixed effects as preferable to simply ignoring differences across banks."
"Economic theory suggests that insurers should prioritize underwriting over investment as a source of income. We find that many U.S. non-life insurers conform to theory: they consistently earn high returns on underwriting and have relatively low-risk investment portfolios. A subset of insurers, however, do the opposite: they consistently earn low returns on underwriting and have relatively high-risk investment portfolios."
"Drawing on recently disclosed information on the Pillar 2 capital requirements of banks directly supervised by the ECB, we find that bank-specific capital requirements are mostly driven by business model and profitability, credit risk, and internal governance and risk management issues. Moreover, we propose a novel measure of bank governance quality that teases out the qualitative dimension of the P2R decision."