This paper defines temporal risk aversion in the context of a simple choice framework: that of time varying utility of wealth. The attention is focused on a decision maker who acts as a buyer: temporal risk premium, instantaneous risk premium and time preference premium are defined.

In the contest of environmental management, the problem of minimizing the expected cost due to random checking processes and a possible failure is here addressed. Non-homogeneous Poisson checking processes with continuous non-decreasing intensity are considered, leading to the explicit detection...

The purpose of our paper is the construction of a multidimensional ethical rating model, based on many items that represent the most significant Corporate Social Responsibility drivers of the banks. The items considered have been drawn from literature and from corporate reporting and websites of...

Purpose – The authors' paper aims to examine the organizational issues that come from the recent establishment of the compliance function in Italian banks. Design/methodology/approach – The authors' paper takes as a starting point the Bank of Italy's regulations and the existing literature...

Purpose – The objective of this paper is to highlight the results of a survey on compliance practices in Italian financial institutions (Italian banks and branches in Italy of foreign banks). Design/methodology/approach – The survey is carried out through a structured questionnaire, arranged...