Over the last three decades, the world economy has been facing stock market crashes, currency crisis, the dot-com and real estate bubble burst, credit crunch and banking panics. As a response, extreme value theory (EVT) provides a set of ready-made approaches to risk management analysis....

We investigate the relation between derivatives use and corporations' cost of equity capital. Using a large sample of non-financial firms, we compute and analyze (i) the relative cost of equity of firms that use derivatives and those that do not; and (ii) the change in cost of equity experienced...

The objective of this paper is to illustrate the life cycle of enterprise risk management using jet fuel price risk management within Southwest Airlines, Inc. Managing market price risk within a corporation appears to follow distinct life cycle periods as a firm moves from creation through a...

The present paper attempts to identify the ways that the United Arab Emirate listed companies manage their financial risk with the use of derivatives. By examining the companies' annual reports and financial reviews for the year 2015. The studied revealed that low use of the financial...

The significant excess of the price of risk, research question in the version paper, [S. Chule, in Applied Mathematical Finance, submitted June 2016], is space-domain form re-evaluated into the stochastic problem objective of the premium risk. The adapts of the conventional generic replication...

Risk measurement and pricing of financial positions are based on modeling assumptions, which are common assumptions on the probability distribution of the position's outcomes. We associate a model with a probability measure and investigate model risk by considering a model space. First, we...

This paper explores how the cost of risk management varies with firm characteristics, offering the first comparison between private, public, and family-owned firms. It exploits a natural experiment in highway procurement, which features diverse firms with common exposure to commodity risk. The...

I study dynamic hedging for variable annuities under basis risk. Basis risk, which arises from the imperfect correlation between the underlying fund and the proxy asset used for hedging, has a highly negative impact on the hedging performance. I investigate whether the choice of a suitable...

As the third component of the Standardized Approach of the Fundamental Review of the Trading Book [1], the Residual Risk Add-On tries to capture the risks not covered by the other two components (Sensitivity Based Method and Default Risk Charge) and plays the role of Risk Not in VaR program or...

If the creditworthiness of a counterparty is a derivative of a commodity price, there is the potential to have right- or wrong-way exposures in respective commodity transaction. Identifying them is important, because otherwise credit costs might be inadequately calculated and wrong incentives...