Among operational risk practitioners there is some confusion about the implications of the loss data collection threshold and the estimation of "truncated" or "shifted" distributions. Claims that "shifted" models result in biased parameter estimates rely on the premise that the "true" model is...

We argue that individual characteristics of managers can explain capital structure decisions like debt conservatism and pecking-order financing choices. Moreover, they can explain cross-sectional variation in these decisions despite identical firm characteristics. We link the reluctance of...

In this article, we establish several deviations for convex and coherent entropic risk measures. Firstly, we provide several deviations for the two risk measures with respect to relative entropy. Secondly, we provide several deviations for the two risk measures with respect to parameters....

In spite of a number of before-and-after evaluation studies of ITS field operational tests and other deployments that have substantiated the favorable payoff of investments in ITS technology, ITS benefits assessment is not a straightforward matter and continues to pose significant challenges....