Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to re‐examine the relationship between real investment and stock prices for the USA for 1960‐2005 in view of distinct economic regimes during the 40‐year period. Design/methodology/approach – The paper employs simple models of investment, checks...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to verify recovery risk management capabilities by lessors. It tests several hypotheses and finds out interesting specific results for lessors. Design/methodology/approach – The approach is empirical: two different database of leasing contracts are...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to show how the influence of the diffusion speed of a financial innovation (FI) increases the operational risk (OR) in any business line with different rate. Design/methodology/approach – A stochastic model is considered presenting the influence of...

Purpose – This paper aims to carry out a comprehensive analysis of the influence of interest rate risk on Spanish firms at the industry level. Design/methodology/approach – The methodology employed has its origin in the two‐index linear regression model proposed by Stone. This traditional...

Purpose – Whether stock returns are linked to exchange rate changes and whether foreign exchange risk is priced in a domestic context are less conclusive and thus still subject to a great debate. The purpose of this paper is to provide new empirical evidence on these two inter‐related...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore risk management models applied to electric power markets. Several Value‐at‐Risk (VaR) models are applied to day‐ahead forward contract electric power price data to see which, if any, could be best used in practice....

Purpose – In June of 2001, Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) and Tokyo Gas Supply Company (TGSC) made a zero‐cost risk swap contract on the average temperature of August and September of 2001 in Tokyo for their adverse situations. This is an exchange of two options on the average...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide a scenario‐based risk measure for a portfolio of European‐style derivative securities over a fixed time horizon under the regime switching Black‐Scholes economy. Design/methodology/approach – The risk measure is constructed by using the...

Purpose – The Basel II Accord requires that banks and other authorized deposit‐taking institutions (ADIs) communicate their daily risk forecasts to the appropriate monetary authorities at the beginning of each trading day, using one or more risk models to measure value‐at‐risk (VaR). The...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate factors that safeguard or hinder the proper use of derivatives, with evidence from active users and controllers of derivatives. Design/methodology/approach – An online panel of 420 users and controllers of derivatives responded to a...