Optimism bias and its impact on cyber risk management decisions
2025
This study explores how optimism bias influences decision-making in cyber risk management by developing a novel model that reflects utility loss aversion, a factor previously unexplored in this context....
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Infinite-mean models in risk management: Discussions and recent advances
2025
In statistical analysis, many classic results require the assumption that models have finite mean or variance, including the most standard versions of the laws of large numbers and the central limit...
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High price impact trade identification and its implication for volatility and price efficiency
2025
We include limit order book (LOB) matchedness as a new trade attribute to identify high price impact trades (HPITs). HPITs are trades associated with large price changes relative to their volume proportion....
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Equal compensations under actuarially fair contributions in endowment contingency funds
2025
This paper considers risk-sharing schemes, aiming to demonstrate that it is possible to enforce equal compensations by charging actuarially fair contributions. Specifically, consider a group of individuals...
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Artificial intelligence and uncertainty
2025
Artificial intelligence (AI) has both capabilities and limitations in managing uncertainty, particularly in handling average cases versus extreme outliers. AI excels at analyzing large datasets and...
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Valuing mortality risk reductions in the time of COVID-19: A stated-preference analysis
2025
Lack of high-quality value per statistical life (VSL) studies in low- and middle-income countries have been recognized by scholars and analysts in the benefit-cost analysis field for decades. However,...
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Strategic timing of corporate social responsibility investments under reputational risk
2025
We analyze a company’s corporate social responsibility (CSR) investments from a real option perspective to determine the value of the CSR investments and the optimal time to invest in CSR, taking into...
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Cyber risk loss distribution for various scale drone delivery systems
2025
Thousands of commercial drone deliveries are occurring daily worldwide, mainly in the U.S. and China. Global corporate efforts such as the recent Amazon trials at College Station, TX, authorized by...
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Resource allocation in multi-layer, continuous defense, security games versus strategic attackers
2025
When defending soft targets, such as airports, subway stations, sports venues and houses of worship, it is critical to optimally allocate defensive resources across the different security layers of...
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From risk to resilience and sustainability: Addressing urban flash floods and waterlogging
2025
Urban flash floods, which occur rapidly in densely populated areas, pose significant risks to infrastructure, public safety, and sustainable development. These events, along with the resulting waterlogging,...
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Firm-level climate risk assessment: Recent progress and future research agenda
2025
As climate change intensifies, firms face increasing exposure to multidimensional risks. This discussion presents a comprehensive review of firm-level climate risk assessment, categorizing risks into...
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Towards fake profiles identification in social networks: A proposal with energy-based PageRank algorithm involving entropy and domain authority
2025
Social networks (SNs) are physical and or, virtual social structures where several users interact with each other, and by nature, SNs are very dynamic. The engagement of millions of people in different...
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How do insurance companies manage reserves? Evidence from reserve errors across lines of business and accident years
2025
We study the question of how insurance companies manage reserves. Specifically, we investigate how managerial incentives affect insurers’ reserving practice across lines of business (LOBs) and accident...
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Risk theory: From perception to cognition
2025
This paper proposes a generic risk theory. The risk theory starts with a basic observation that risk is the product of a specific human cognitive process. This cognitive process is responsible for the...
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Taming AI with Morals? Skeptical Notes
Available online 27 March 2025
If the risks that leading experts say are intrinsic to advanced AI systems are real, then there is little reason to expect that they can be contained, be it by political or ethical means. The reasons...
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