Based on the belief that it is behaviour which constitutes risk rather than procedures, the paper focuses on the awareness of behavioural aspects in risk management techniques and the consequences that arise out of this awareness. It questions the traditional thinking that risk management is...

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to show how the influence of the diffusion speed of a financial innovation (FI) increases the operational risk (OR) in any business line with different rate.Design/methodology/approach - A stochastic model is considered presenting the influence of diffusion...

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to investigate the association between corporate risk and the interaction between CEO incentive compensation and CEO overconfidence.Design/methodology/approach – This empirical study performs random and fixed effects regression analysis. It uses...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate factors that safeguard or hinder the proper use of derivatives, with evidence from active users and controllers of derivatives. Design/methodology/approach – An online panel of 420 users and controllers of derivatives responded to a...

Purpose – Whether stock returns are linked to exchange rate changes and whether foreign exchange risk is priced in a domestic context are less conclusive and thus still subject to a great debate. The purpose of this paper is to provide new empirical evidence on these two inter-related issues,...

Purpose – This paper aims to carry out a comprehensive analysis of the influence of interest rate risk on Spanish firms at the industry level. Design/methodology/approach – The methodology employed has its origin in the two-index linear regression model proposed by Stone. This traditional...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore risk management models applied to electric power markets. Several Value-at-Risk (VaR) models are applied to day-ahead forward contract electric power price data to see which, if any, could be best used in practice. Design/methodology/approach...

Purpose – Strategic cost structure choices determine how firms divide operating costs between fixed and variable components, and therefore have important implications for financial performance. The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of operating leverage on equity Betas when...