Ethical awareness is growing and the word itself seems to be spreading to all walks of life. In medicine and economics a myriad of ethical committees have sprouted in an attempt to control the potential excesses of science or business transactions. How can one explain this craze for a word that...

This paper presents Peak Over Threshold's method and the generalized Pareto distribution of extreme value theory to measure Value at Risk and Expected Shortfall for CAC 40 and S&P 500 indexes during the 2008 financial crisis. We consider 1 day, 5 days and 10 days time horizons. The results of...

Social and environmental ratings provided by social rating agencies are multidimensional. Using the six sub-ratings provided by the Vigeo rating agency, we perform a principal component analysis and we highlight three main socially responsible (SR) dimensions related to (1) the direct...

Approaching the institutional environment through its regulative component, we distinguish between shareholder-oriented and stakeholder-oriented countries. Identifying first this classification with the distinction between common law versus civil law countries and using a large sample of 5,716...

Our results show that US banks with a relatively high share of non-interest income become riskier with a moving toward non-interest-generating activities, especially activities from investment banking, proprietary trading, etc. The findings also prove, although weakly, that banks with a...

We examine the determinants of bank capital structure using a sample of 569 large and publicly traded banks in 26 developed and emerging countries over the period 2004-2013. We use simultaneously two notions of capital ratio (risk- and non-risk based capital ratio) to provide a more...

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between corporate social responsibility (CSR) and the default risk level of firms operating in the Eurozone and how CSR can provide insurance-like protection during financial/economic downturns.Design/methodology/approach: Based...

This paper explores the impact of corporate social responsibility (CSR) on default risk in various institutional contexts. Using CSR scores and credit ratings for 1,153 firms from 45 countries, we find that CSR reduces the firm default risk level and that the effect is stronger in civil law...