In this paper a risk-profitability approach is used to measure the performance of local and foreign commercial banks … be different risk measures of banks. …

, and political risk affect the performance, risk-taking behavior and compensation fees of mutual funds. Overall, the … results show strongly that legal conditions, culture, and political risk have robust differential effects on fees, performance … and risk-taking behavior of Islamic funds and conventional funds. We find that Islamic mutual funds in countries with …

virtually absent in labour economics text books. This paper documents the scope for risk, discusses the tough disentanglement of … heterogeneity and risk, surveys the analytical models, laments the absence of a good workhorse model and points out the challenges … worth tackling: document ex ante risk that investors face, develop a tractable and malleable analytical model and integrate …

contribution system is a target function of minimisation of the investment risk as the risk of insufficiency of net pension assets …

We develop a model of banking industry dynamics to study the quantitative impact of capital requirements on bank risk …

Credit risk is crucial to understanding banks’ production technology and should be explicitly accounted for when … modeling the latter. The banking literature has largely accounted for risk by using ex-post realizations of banks’ uncertain … outputs and the variables intended to capture risk. This is equivalent to estimating an ex-post realization of bank …