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

Expected Shortfall (ES) has been widely accepted as a risk measure that is conceptually superior to Value-at-Risk (VaR … desirable properties of risk measures like coherence, comonotonic additivity, robustness and elicitability. We check VaR, ES and … their impact on capital allocation, an important issue in risk management. We find that, despite the caveats that apply to …

Risk diversification is the basis of insurance and investment. It is thus crucial to study the effects that could limit … it. One of them is the existence of systemic risk that affects all the policies at the same time. We introduce here a … probabilistic approach to examine the consequences of its presence on the risk loading of the premium of a portfolio of insurance …

Measuring the risk of a financial portfolio involves two steps: estimating the loss distribution of the portfolio from … available observations and computing a ``risk measure" which summarizes the risk of the portfolio. We define the notion of … ``risk measurement procedure", which includes both of these steps and introduce a rigorous framework for studying the …

consequences. By properly assessing the outcomes involved - especially those concerning human life - economic theory of choice … under uncertainty is expected to help people take the best decision. However, the widely used expected utility theory values …

The classical expected utility model of decision under risk (von Neumann-Morgenstern, 1944) has been criticized from an … could dislike risk (prefer to any lottery its expectation) without necessarily avoiding any increase in risk ; diminishing … marginal utility may coexists with "weak" risk seeking attitudes ; decision makers with the same utility function may differ in …

This paper investigates the nature of the relationship between direct investment and country risk in southern countries … is sufficient for business risk to determine the entrepreneur's strategy to undertake an investment project if the mover …-owner advantage exists in a country with risk. A Multinational Enterprise can invest in a big number of countries if the gains from …

Starting from the requirement that risk measures of financial portfolios should be based on their losses, not their … gains, we define the notion of loss-based risk measure and study the properties of this class of risk measures. We … characterize loss-based risk measures by a representation theorem and give examples of such risk measures. We then discuss the …

The banking systems that deal with risk management depend on underlying risk measures. Following the recommendation of … the Basel II accord, most banks have developed internal models to determine their capital requirement. The Value at Risk …, showing the need for five risk measures in order to compute a capital in relation to the risk to which the bank is exposed. In …