We develop a novel argument why better public information can help countries to insure against idiosyncratic risk … and engage in risk-sharing contracts with limited enforceability. Better public information has two opposite effects …. First, it has a detrimental effect on risk sharing by limiting risk-sharing possibilities as emphasized by Hirshleifer (1971 …

In the search for effective pesticide risk management tools, the design of pesticide risk indicators is nowadays … recently developed pesticide risk indices and test their potential for management purposes. A pilot approach is proposed, which … explores pesticide worst-case hazard scenarios at different space-time scales by means of a set of 5 ecotoxicological risk …

the insurance sector. The downside risk of insurers is explicitly modelled by common and idiosyncratic risk factors. Since … reinsurance is important for the capacity of insurers, we measure risk dependence among European insurers and reinsurers. The … results point to a relatively low insurance sector wide risk. Dependence among insurers is higher than among reinsurers. …

The paper studies risk mitigation associated with capital regulation, in a context when banks may choose tail risk … assets. We show that this undermines the traditional result that higher capital reduces excess risk-taking driven by limited … liability. When capital raising is costly, poorly capitalized banks may limit risk to avoid breaching the minimal capital ratio …

This paper analyses the effect of risk attitudes of firm owners on profits among micro and small enterprises (MSEs) in … Lagos, Nigeria. Higher risk perceptions are shown to have a significant positive effect on profits, whereas risk propensity … firms earn lower profits. Overall, the results suggest that being aware and dealing cautiously with risk leads to higher …

In recent years the Value at Risk (VaR) concept for measuringdownside risk has been widelystudied. VaR basically is a … summary statistic that quantifies theexposure of an asset or portfolio tomarket risk, or the risk that a position declines in … be helpful to study market value risk -- proxied by shareprice risk. We develop amethodology to decompose the overall VaR …

rationale behind the bans was that "bear raids", driven by short-sellers, would increase the individual and systemic risk of … financial institutions, especially for institutions with high leverage. This study uses Extreme Value Theory to estimate the … specifically target institutions with lower capital levels. Furthermore, institutions' risk-levels and changes in short …

Financial risk management is difficult at the best of times, but especially so in the presence of economic uncertainty … and financial crises. The purpose of this special issue on "Advances in Financial Risk Management and Economic Policy … methods have contributed significantly to the analysis of financial risk management when there is economic uncertainty …