Terms and Essays -- Deposit Insurance Schemes -- Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act: Creating a New Bank for a New Millennium -- Pre-funded Coupon and Zero-Coupon Bonds: Cost of Capital Analysis -- Intertemporal Risk and Currency Risk -- Credit Derivatives -- Foreign exchange risk premium and policy...

Subsidized R&D collaboration: The effect of innovation vouchers on innovation activity and performance -- Choking under pressure: The effect of asymmetric contests on effort, stress and performance -- Performance in contests: The role of risk and confidence.

Introduction: Applied Economics of Information and Risk -- An Incentive Mechanism with regard to Transaction-Specific Investment, and Information -- Bidding Mechanism of Monitoring and Collusion -- Effectiveness of Mandatory Disclosure for Consumer Policy -- Asymmetric Information, Ex-ante...

1. An Overview of the Sustainability-Financial Risk Nexus -- 2. The Impact of Climate Change on the Banking and Insurance Industries -- 3. The Transition to a Low-carbon Economy and Stranded Assets -- 4. Sustainability-related Risks, Risk Management Frameworks and Financial Disclosure -- 5....

Preface -- Part I Size -- Chapter 1: Mega-states vs. Compact Powers: Risks in the Emerging International System -- Chapter 2: Effects of the Size of a Country on its Economic Performance -- Part II Political Regimes and Social Structure -- Chapter 3: Analyzing Dependence and Conflict in a...