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 …

conducted to examine if beta, proxied for a systematic risk, should be considered valid in the application of the CAPM at the … rate, inflation, and GDP are examples of systematic risk. Findings from this study indicate that the selection of portfolio … considered as a valid measure of systematic risk. …

The Journal of Risk and Financial Management (JRFM) was inaugurated in 2008 and has continued publishing successfully …