We utilize network analysis to evaluate the relationship between firms' characteristics and board of director networks. In a sample of 20 largest firms by market value from the energy and the utility industrials, 10 from each sector, we cluster the firms by their firm-level characteristics, as...

In this paper, we examine the impact of regulation on the risk culture of U.S. insurance firms, to address the refocused attention on federal insurance regulations after the 2008 financial crisis. To better understand the risk culture of insurers, we apply textual analysis and unsupervised...

Although risk culture is a key element in the risk management process, identifying the riskculture of a firm can be challenging due to the abstract concept of culture. We introduce textmining and unsupervised machine learning algorithms to define the risk culture for U.S. bankholding companies...

We study the effects of transparency disclosures on the risk culture, corporate culture, and performance of U.S. banks. Using stress test regulation, textual analysis, and a regression discontinuity design, we exploit the regulation's quasi-experimental properties around the bank-size policy...

Risk related to long-term care (LTC) is high for the elderly. Planning for LTC is now regarded as the [`]third leg' of retirement planning. In this paper, planning for LTC is integrated with saving and investment decisions for an integrated approach to retirement planning. Optimal LTC insurance...