A Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience Scorecard for Climate Adaptation

This research presents a balance #scorecard tool for assessing #disasterriskreduction and #resilience (#dr3) in the context of #floods, #droughts and #heatwaves. It aims to support the integration and monitoring of #climateadaptation, #sustainability and #riskreduction into development planning in vulnerable communities. This approach contributes to strengthening #governance, resilience and #riskmanagement in disaster-prone areas.

Reasonable AI and Other Creatures: What Role for AI Standards in Liability Litigation?

This paper discusses the relationship between standards and private law in the context of #liability #litigation and #tortlaw for damage caused by #ai systems. The paper highlights the importance of #standards in supporting policies and legislation of the #eu, particularly in the #regulation of #artificialintelligence. The paper assesses the role of AI standards in private law and argues that they contribute to defining the duty of care expected from developers and professional operators of AI systems.

Reexamining Enron's Regulatory Consequences

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This article examines the downfall of #Enron Corporation, which is often seen as the epitome of corporate #fraud. Enron engaged in complex structured hedging transactions to achieve accounting results, which ultimately led to its collapse and the imprisonment of some of its #managers. The article aims to present the facts objectively and asks what advice should have been given to Enron's managers. It suggests that society can overreact to #businessfailure and #regulatory responses can miss the mark, and that corporate managers must take reasonable risks to remain competitive. The article concludes that failure should not automatically be judged as managerial misfeasance.

Particle MCMC in forecasting frailty correlated default models with expert opinion

This paper focuses on predicting #corporate #default #risk using frailty correlated default #models with subjective judgments. The study uses a #bayesian approach with the Particle Markov Chain #montecarlo algorithm to analyze data from #us public non-financial firms between 1980 and 2019. The findings suggest that the volatility and mean reversion of the hidden factor have a significant impact on the default intensities of the firms.

Risk, Discretion, and Bank Supervision

"... the new Climate Risk Division will integrate climate risks into its supervision of regulated entities, support the industry’s growth in managing climate risks, coordinate with international, national, and state regulators, develop internal capacity on climate-related financial risks, support the capacity-building of peer regulators on climate-related supervision, and ensure fair access to financial services for all communities, especially those most impacted by climate change. "

Measuring Discrete Risks on Infinite Domains

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This paper presents an extension of #statistical inference for smoothed quantile estimators from finite domains to infinite domains. A new truncation methodology is proposed for discrete loss distributions with infinite domains. #simulation studies using several distributions commonly used in the #insuranceindustry show the effectiveness of the methodology. The authors also propose a flexible bootstrap-based approach and demonstrate its use in computing the conditional five number summary (C5NS) for tail risk and constructing confidence intervals for each of the five quantiles that make up C5NS. Results using #automobile #accident #data show that the smoothed quantile approach produces more accurate classifications of tail #risk and lower coefficients of variation in the estimation of tail #probabilities compared to the linear interpolation approach.

Silicon Valley Bank - (Why) Did Regulation And Risk Management Fail To Uncover Substantial Risks?

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"This paper examines the major causes of #svbcollapse collapse in March 2023 from a #regulatory and #riskmanagement perspective... Our analysis reveals major weaknesses in SVB’s risk management practice but also underlines weaknesses in the US regulatory regime [compared to #baseliii] reaching from reporting exemptions for small banks in the domain of liquidity and interest rate risks, non-sufficiently sensitive monitoring ratios, and misalignments between #accounting and risk management principles hindering effective oversight."

Application of Deep Reinforcement Learning in Asset Liability Management

This paper discusses the limitations of traditional #asset#liability#management (#alm) techniques in #riskmanagement, particularly in high-interest rate environments, and proposes the application of #deep#reinforcement#learning (#drl) to overcome these limitations. The paper defines the components of #reinforcementlearning (#rl) that can be optimized for ALM, including the RL Agent, Environment, Actions, States, and Reward Functions. The study shows that implementing DRL provides a superior approach compared to traditional ALM, as it allows for increased #automation, flexibility, and multi-objective #optimization in ALM.