Cross-affiliation emerges as a new and fast-developing means to promote collaboration in financial research. We find that the average number of affiliations reported per author in the top-three finance journals increases steadily from 1.1 to 1.3 from 1995 to 2016. Scale-free power laws...

Return jumps on equities exhibit slowly-decaying tail behavior admitting severe downside risk; moreover, heavy-tailed jump size distributions governing these rare events pose further challenges to econometric estimation. This paper formulates a portfolio choice problem in a multi-asset...

This paper investigates implications of strategic interaction (competition) between two CARA insurers on their reinsurance and investment policies. The two insurers are concerned about their terminal wealth as well as the relative performance measured by the difference between their terminal...

This paper analyzes the correlation between catastrophe (cat) bonds and four other asset classes before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. Using a DCC-GARCH model and a dummy variable regression, our study suggests that cat bonds can be used as a strong safe haven for stocks before the pandemic...

We study optimal insurance, consumption and portfolio choice in a framework where a family purchases life insurance to protect the loss of the wage earner's human capital. Explicit solutions are obtained by employing CARA utility functions. We show that the optimal life insurance purchase is not...