We address the paradox that financial innovations aimed at risk-sharing appear to have made the world riskier. Financial innovations facilitate hedging idiosyncratic risks among agents; however, aggregate risks can be hedged only with liquid assets. When risk-sharing is primitive, agents...

Der Beitrag stellt ein Verfahren zur Schätzung des Loss Given Default (LGD) von Leasingverträgen vor. Die typisch multimodale Form von LGD-Verteilungen im Leasing lässt sich nicht durch Klassifikation nach Objektarten, Kundentypen, Laufzeiten oder Ausfallzeitpunkten erklären. Folglich ist...

Die Finanzmarktkrise hat Schwächen in der Bankenaufsicht deutlich werden lassen. Der Artikel befasst sich mit vier Ansatzpunkten für eine Weiterentwicklung der Bankenaufsicht: Benötigt wird eine stärker an Prinzipien orientierte Bankenaufsicht anstatt starrer Regeln für die...

In this paper we investigate portfolio optimization under Value at Risk, Average Value at Risk and Limited Expected Loss constraints in a continuous time framework, where stocks follow a geometric Brownian motion. Analytic expressions for Value at Risk, Average Value at Risk and Limited Expected...

The recent financial crisis triggered the greatest recession since the 1930s and had a devastating impact on households' wealth and on their capacity to reduce their indebtedness. In the aftermath, it became clear that there is significant room for improvement in property risk management. While...

Unlike delta-hedging or similar methods based on Greeks, global hedging is an approach that optimizes some terminal criterion that depends on the difference between the value of a derivative security and that of its hedging portfolio at maturity or exercise. Global hedging methods in discrete...

The main aim of this paper is to examine the determinants that contribute to the establishment of a risk management committee (RMC) in a firm. Unlike previous studies, this paper investigates the types of ownership structure, comprising family, institutional, government, managerial, and foreign...

The outbreak of COVID-19 severely affected the achievement of the sustainable development goals. The American Hospital Association estimated an average loss of US\50.7 billion per month for US hospitals during the COVID-19 pandemic. In the less developed economies, it costs about US\52 billion...

This study is designed to provide empirical evidences on the conditional influence corporate social responsibility (CSR) on corporate accounting and market performance. This study considers risk management (RM) as a conditional or moderating variable. Accounting performance was proxied by return...