lower credit risk than conventional banks. In terms of insolvency risk, small Islamic banks also appear more stable …This paper investigates risk and stability features of Islamic banking using a sample of 553 banks from 24 countries …

, and prolongation of the activity of viable firms. This contribution examines the French insolvency law and its …

This study investigates the influence of background diversity of bank board members on performance and risk. Using data … associated with performance except when it relates to ethnicity. It not only reduces performance per se but also increases risk …. Female presence and professional diversity reduce risk but nationality and ethnicity diversities are associated with higher …

non-zero risk levels. Some contemporary European societies tolerate about one fatality per thousand year around industrial …

-agricultural sector is considered as a risk-mitigating strategy by rural Pakistani households. This issue has already been addressed but … whether ex ante engagement in the non-agricultural sector is partly motivated by a desire to mitigate risk. The main feature …

We define a coherent risk measures as set-valued maps satisfying some axioms. We show that this definition is a … convenient extension of the real-valued risk measures introduced by Artzner, Delbaen, Eber and Heath (1998). We then discuss the … aggregation issue, i.e. the passage from valued random portofolio to valued measure of Risk. Necessary and sufficient conditions …

Information and Risk in the Medieval Doctrine of Usury during the Thirteenth Century …