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 Uncertainty" is to highlight some areas of research in...

Financial risk is largely ignored in the tourism literature where most of the research concentrates only on economic or political factors. Hence, we examine the effect of composite country risk, which includes economic, financial and political risks as they all play a significant role in...

We plot aggregated daily stock returns with absolute value less than x against x and show empirically that this produces a typical spoon-shaped pattern which indicates a special type of asymmetry which has not been discussed before. This pattern disappears when individual returns are averaged; it...

This paper examines the asymmetric impact of economic policy uncertainty (EPU) and oil price uncertainty (OPU) on inflation by using a Nonlinear ARDL (NARDL) model, which is compared to a benchmark linear ARDL one. Using monthly data from the 1990s until August 2022 for a number of developed and...

A stable economic condition is crucial for an organization's success. Any fluctuation in economic policy directly influences corporate-level decisions. However, exercising better governance can mitigate the adverse effect of such unstable economic conditions. Owing to this, the current research...

Economic policy uncertainty (EPU) has important implications for crude oil market. To explore the implications, this paper investigates the impact of EPU on the crude oil return volatility and which EPU index has the most forecasting power in crude oil market. To this end, we employ the...