This paper approaches the risk management as a decision making process in which the best solution to an exposure is found and implemented. Such a process includes five stages: identifying the risk, assessment of exposure, analysis of the alternatives to deal with the exposure, adopting the...

The authors demonstrate a problem of innovation support by business support institutions (BSIs) operating in the market. The conducted research and secondary data analyses indicate that despite the availability of broad range of dedicated products, entrepreneurs prefer traditional forms of...

Investment in long lived projects such as buildings are characterized by uncertainties regarding project life, operation and maintenance costs, revenues and other factors that affect project economics. Since the exact values of these variable factors are usually unknown, it is difficult to make...

The firm growth dynamics is an important topic since the growth performance of firms is the main source of the economic growth in countries. Generally, crises produce a sharp decline in firms’ growth and this leads to a decline in both the level of employment and the income of households. This...

In this paper we study how the introduction of the euro has affected corporate financing in Europe. We use firm level data from eleven euro-countries as well as from a control group of five other European countries spanning the years 1991-2006. We show that firms from euro-countries that...

Financial risk tolerance is one of the key elements that should be considered in making investment decisions for both investment managers and investors. According to its importance, understanding and measuring of financial risk tolerance is not a simple topic. Therefore measuring of financial...

Operational Risk (OR) results from endogenous and exogenous risk factors, as diverse and complex to assess as human resources and technology, which may not be properly measured using traditional quantitative approaches. Engineering has faced the same challenges when designing practical solutions...

On January 20, 2009, the European Forum held in Paris under the auspices of the OECD business ethics. Speaking at the forum were discussed substantive issues of ethics in business under current economic and financial affairs. The economic and social costs of international crisis representing, as...

In this paper we intend to briefly analyze the evolution of public debt in developed countries, on the background of the global economic and financial crisis, also highlighting the specific factors leading to its accumulation and the solutions possible to apply in order to reduce its level. We...

The internal control refers to the financial control performed by organizational structures of internal control at the economic entity (public authorities of central and local administration), including a priori approval systems (ex-ante) and internal audit (a-posteriori or ex-post). One of the...