An important goal of financial risk regulation is promoting coordination. Law's coordinating function minimizes costly conflict and encourages greater uniformity among market participants. Likewise, privately developed market standards, such as standard-form contracts and rules incorporated into...

Financial risk model evaluation or backtesting is a key part of the internal model’sapproach to market risk management as laid out by the Basle Committee on BankingSupervision (2004). However there are a number of backtests that may be applied andthere is little guidance as to the most...

Volatility modelling is a key issue for the finance industry from an academic and practitioner perspective. This is understandable given the importance that volatility plays in risk management and the development of accurate risk measures in a univariate or multivariate framework. To illustrate,...

The previous political dispensation limited black people’s participation in the SouthAfrican economy. Poor credit records, lack of training, resulting in skills and capacitygaps further limited entry into the lending market. These aspects are considered themain limitations in obtaining finance...

Gegenstand der vorliegenden Untersuchung ist die systematische Risikobestimmung nach IFRS unter besonderer Berücksichtigung des IAS 17. Da komplexe Leasingtransaktionen ebenfalls andere bilanzielle Fragestellungen aufwerfen, werden Bilanzierungsnormen im Rahmen von drei Exkursen dargestellt,...

We review agricultural financing strategies in developed and developing economies in light of the risks that agricultural businesses face due to variations in weather conditions among other challenges. We specifically review Kenyan farmers' agricultural risk management strategies and credit...

The growth in variable renewable energy (vRES) and the need for flexibility in power systems go hand in hand. We study how vRES and other factors, namely the price of substitute fuels, power price volatility, structural breaks, and seasonality impact the hedgeable power spreads (profit margins)...