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“... commitments to ESG might be viewed as signalling a particular approach to risk management rather than an ideologically-driven willingness to sacrifice profitability.”

The paper examines the EU AI Act's impact on banking supervision, highlighting the ECB's role. It discusses legal frameworks, obligations for high-risk AI systems, AI governance, and the balance between innovation and prudential requirements. Strategic policy recommendations are provided to enhance oversight and financial system integrity.

“... insurers’ asset allocation and product pricing decisions are more connected than previously thought.”

This study analyzes the financial impact of Corporate Social Irresponsibility (CSI) events on European banks using a dataset of 11,832 reputational shocks from 2007-2023. Results show significant negative stock returns and increased volatility following CSI media coverage, with proactive ESG engagement mitigating these effects.

The theory of regulatory compliance has enabled the development of differential monitoring, emphasizing tailored, impactful regulations over uniform approaches, proving crucial in risk assessment and key indicators.

The paper empirically analyzes the ECB's climate-risk-related supervisory efforts' impact on banks' climate risk exposure, management, and green finance activities. Using a difference-in-difference setup, it finds significant improvements in climate risk management and increased green finance among Significant Institutions under the Single Supervisory Mechanism since 2020.

This paper explores methods to measure and adjust for country risk, sovereign default risk, and equity risk premiums. The paper argues that a company's exposure to country risk should be based on its operations rather than incorporation location, affecting valuations of multinational corporations.

The significance of mortality modeling extends across multiple research areas, including life insurance valuation, longevity risk management, life-cycle hypothesis, and retirement income planning. A new vitality-based mortality modeling approach is introduced, addressing limitations in existing methods. This four-component framework analyzes individual vitality dynamics, defining mortality as vitality depletion. The model demonstrates versatility in estimation and analysis, with implications for actuarial problems and various research areas, offering an improved paradigm for mortality modeling.

Increasing climate risk has made insurance unaffordable or unavailable in many areas. A study on Australia's government-provided, mandatory reinsurance for cyclone damage shows it decreases home insurance premiums by 21% and increases availability by 11%. The policy reduces costs associated with correlated risks and boosts market competition.

Banking regulations encourage banks to invest in "risk-free" government bonds, affecting financial stability. This study reveals governments exploit this to increase fiscal flexibility. Zero-risk weighting of sovereign bonds lowers borrowing costs, promotes over-borrowing, and undermines fiscal rules.