Purpose – For publicly traded firms, calculating the cost of capital is predicated typically on information from the financial markets. Small businesses do not have the necessary market-based information. As an alternative to traditional proxy approaches, this paper presents a multi-criteria...

Purpose – This paper reports on the foreign exchange risk-management practices among Ghanaian firms involved in international trade. The study focuses on how Ghanaian firms manage their foreign exchange risk and the problems involved in managing exchange rate exposure. It also seeks to...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to describe a generalization of the familiar two-sample t-test for equality of means to the case where the sample values are to be given unequal weights. This is a natural situation in financial risk modeling when some samples are considered more reliable...

Purpose – Derivatives are important risk management tools widely used by financial institutions, including insurers. Insurers rely on derivatives for managing actuarial, market, credit as well as liquidity risks. There is lack of knowledge and publication about the recent use of derivatives by...

Purpose – To: evaluate Prospect Theory and Cumulative Prospect Theory as functional models of decision making and risk within various contexts; compare and analyze risk models and decision-making models; evaluate models of stock risk developed by Robert Engle and related models; establish...

Purpose – Aims to investigate the accuracy of parametric, nonparametric, and semiparametric methods in predicting the one-day-ahead value-at-risk (VaR) measure in three types of markets (stock exchanges, commodities, and exchange rates), both for long and short trading positions....

Purpose – To study the effect of Knightian uncertainty – as opposed to statistical estimation error – in the evaluation of value-at-risk (VaR) of financial investments. To develop methods for augmenting existing VaR estimates to account for Knightian uncertainty....

Purpose – To: evaluate Prospect Theory and Cumulative Prospect Theory as functional models of decision making and risk within various contexts; compare and analyze risk models and decision-making models; evaluate models of stock risk developed by Robert Engle and related models; establish...

Purpose – This paper aims to investigate how effectively the value at risk (VaR) estimated using the student-t distribution captures the market risk. Design/methodology/approach – Two alternative VaR models, VaR-t and VaR-x models, are presented and compared with the benchmark model (VaR-n...

Purpose – The aim of this paper is to fill a gap in the foreign-exchange trading risk-management literature and particularly from the perspective of emerging and illiquid markets, such as in the context of the Moroccan foreign-exchange market. Design/methodology/approach – This paper,...