This paper analyzes the impact of capital on profitability and risk for Islamic and conventional Gulf Cooperation …. Second, higher-capitalized GCC banks (Islamic and conventional) are found to be more risky. Third, all profitability and risk … variables show persistence. Finally, we arrive at the same conclusions about the capital, profitability, and risk relationship …

degree of market integration, global market risk premium, regional exchange-rate risk premium and local market risk premium … explained by the regional level of trade openness and the regional stock mar- ket development; ii) the local market risk premium … is found to explain more than 50% of total risk premium for emerging market returns; iii) conditional correlations …

assets with short-selling where there is risk and ambiguity. Agents have Bewley’s incomplete preferences. As an inertia … of an individually rational efficient allocation or of an equilibrium is that the relative interiors of the risk adjusted … sets of probabilities intersect. The more risk averse, the more ambiguity averse the agents, the more likely is an …

The current paper studies the impact of board gender-diversity on firm risk-taking in a developing market. Our study is … drawn on a sample of 30 Tunisian listed firms between 1997 and 2010. First, we found that women have a risk perception that … leads to a risk avoidance behavior: the presence of women directors, even when there is one woman director, is positively …