Our social relations are changing, we are now not just talking to each other, but we are now also talking to artificial intelligence (AI) assistants. We claim AI assistants present a new form of digital connectivity risk ...

With the advent of autonomous vehicles society will need to confront a new set of risks which, for the first time, includes the ability of socially embedded forms of artificial intelligence to make complex risk mitigation ...

The proliferation of technologies embedded in connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs) increases the potential of cyber-attacks. The communication systems between vehicles and infrastructure present remote attack access ...

Road traffic accidents are largely driven by human error; therefore, the development of connected automated vehicles (CAV) is expected to signiicantly reduce accident risk. However, these changes are by no means proven and ...

The international dialogue on responsible governance of nanotechnologies engages a wide range of actors with conflicting as well as common interests. It is also characterised by a lack of evidence-based data on uncertain ...

This thesis consists of four individual essays which are framed by an introductory and a concluding chapter. While independent from each other, the essays all focus on the topic of foreign investment in developing and ...

Value-at-Risk (VaR) is the primary measure used to estimate the potential losses for a bank portfolio due to market movements. It has three key roles: internal risk management; risk reporting; determination of market risk ...

This paper employs a unique, largely hand-gathered dataset to investigate the determinants of both foreign currency (FX) and interest rate (IR) derivatives usage for a sample of European non-financial firms. By measuring ...

This thesis is concerned with the predictability of equity market performance in China while accounting for the possibility of model instability. The study of return predictability, particularly that on time-varying ...

The provision of an adequate liability regime for ADAS technologies is an essential prerequisite for its roll out over the coming decade. Facing to the challenge of future highly automated vehicles, this paper proposed ...