"Modern Finance and Risk Management is dedicated to our colleague, academic mentor, and adviser Professor Hermann Locarek-Junge. During his academic career, Hermann Locarek-Junge published several important contributions to the field of risk management and portfolio management and served as the...

Assuming that investors can be foreign or local, do high-frequency trading (HFT) or not, and submit orders through a bank-owned or non-bank-owned broker, we associated trades to various investors. Then, building a panel vector autoregressive model, we analyzed the dynamic relation of these...

The present study aimed to investigate the effect of market structure and risk taking on the efficiency of banks accepted in Tehran Stock Exchange. This study was an applied research and all the banks accepted in Tehran Stock Exchange participated in the study and among them, 10 banks were...

In this paper we investigate the importance of acquaintance networks for financial decisions by households. We construct a variable capturing the expected proximity or social closeness to a subpopulation of financially savvy people using an overdispersed Poisson model. This measure captures the...

In this paper we investigate the importance of acquaintance networks for financial decisions by households. We construct a variable capturing the expected proximity or social closeness to a subpopulation of financially savvy people using an overdispersed Poisson model. This measure captures the...

Based on microdata from a large Peer-to-Peer (P2P) lending platform, this paper explores P2P investors’ perception of the platform’s role when making P2P investment decisions. Inconsistent with the regulation assumption that investors primarily evaluate the risks of their investment...