This paper investigates volatility persistence in Southern and East African stock markets taking into account the rate of volatility decay. Generalised autoregressive conditional heteroscedaticity (GARCH) and GARCH-in-mean (GARCH-M) models are used to estimate volatility persistence and risk...

An increased number of firms are affected by financial crisis and the crisis phenomenon is a very frequent occurrence in the lifecycle of a company. There are several objectives for this study. The first one is to identify the communicative and managerial role of qualitative and quantitative...

This paper sheds light on the financial turmoil in the insurance sector from a Belgian supervisory perspective.3 An assessment is made of the main difficulties encountered by insurers and their supervisors during the development and acceleration of the financial crisis. Particular attention is...

Islamic finance consists of Islamic banking, Islamic insurance and Islamic capital market. Being one of the major elements, takaful (Islamic insurance) does have a significant role in the industry. The concept of takaful is where a group of people participate in a scheme that enables them to...

The hypothesis that managers believe risk to be a major component of strategy formulation, with a corresponding effect on the strategic decision‐making process, was subjected to empirical examination. A total of 93 top executives of Israel's largest industrial companies, representing various...