Skewed distributions in finance and actuarial science: a review

C Adcock, M Eling, N Loperfido - The European Journal of Finance, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
That the returns on financial assets and insurance claims are not well described by the
multivariate normal distribution is generally acknowledged in the literature. This paper …

Cyber risk research in business and actuarial science

M Eling - European Actuarial Journal, 2020 - Springer
We review the academic literature on “cyber risk” and “cyber insurance” in the fields of
business (management, economics, finance, risk management and insurance) and actuarial …

What are the actual costs of cyber risk events?

M Eling, J Wirfs - European Journal of Operational Research, 2019 - Elsevier
Cyber risks are high on the business agenda of every company, but they are difficult to
assess due to the absence of reliable data and thorough analyses. This paper is the first to …

Fitting insurance claims to skewed distributions: Are the skew-normal and skew-student good models?

M Eling - Insurance: Mathematics and Economics, 2012 - Elsevier
This paper analyzes whether the skew-normal and skew-student distributions recently
discussed in the finance literature are reasonable models for describing claims in property …

Data breaches: Goodness of fit, pricing, and risk measurement

M Eling, N Loperfido - Insurance: mathematics and economics, 2017 - Elsevier
Some research on cyber risk has been conducted in the field of information technology, but
virtually no research exists in the actuarial domain. As a first step toward a more profound …

Risk factors of road accident severity and the development of a new system for prevention: New insights from China

N Benlagha, L Charfeddine - Accident Analysis & Prevention, 2020 - Elsevier
Road accident fatalities and accident severity costs have become top priorities and concerns
for Chinese policymakers. Understanding the principal factors that explain accident severity …

Beyond value‐at‐risk: GlueVaR distortion risk measures

J Belles‐Sampera, M Guillén, M Santolino - Risk Analysis, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
We propose a new family of risk measures, called GlueVaR, within the class of distortion risk
measures. Analytical closed‐form expressions are shown for the most frequently used …

Compound unimodal distributions for insurance losses

A Punzo, L Bagnato, A Maruotti - Insurance: Mathematics and Economics, 2018 - Elsevier
The distribution of insurance losses has a positive support and is often unimodal hump-
shaped, right-skewed and with heavy tails. In this work, we introduce a 3-parameter …

Skew mixture models for loss distributions: a Bayesian approach

M Bernardi, A Maruotti, L Petrella - Insurance: Mathematics and Economics, 2012 - Elsevier
The derivation of loss distribution from insurance data is a very interesting research topic but
at the same time not an easy task. To find an analytic solution to the loss distribution may be …

A nonparametric approach to calculating value-at-risk

R Alemany, C Bolancé, M Guillen - Insurance: Mathematics and Economics, 2013 - Elsevier
A method to estimate an extreme quantile that requires no distributional assumptions is
presented. The approach is based on transformed kernel estimation of the cumulative …