Introduction / Michael McAleer -- Assessment of risk ratings and risk returns for 120 representative countries … / Michael McAleer -- Conditional volatility models for risk ratings and risk returns / Michael McAleer -- Univariate and … multivariate estimates of symmetric and asymmetric conditional volatilities and conditional correlations for risk returns / Michael …

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 …