The aim of this paper is to analyse the impact of both firm-specific and external factors on the risk taking of … European insurance companies. The extent of risk taking is quantified through variations in stock prices and these are … corporate governance system and the control-based regime implemented in Germany, with the UK exhibiting a higher level of risk …

This paper will examine some commonly adopted approaches to the measurement of risk in finance and the various … shortcomings implicit in the underpinnings of these approaches: early views on the nature of risk and uncertainty (Hume, Bernoulli …, GARCH, stochastic volatility, realised volatility and attempts to capture 'tail risk'); the measurement of risk implicit in …

whether the consideration of risk in a budgeting process contributes to improve its effectiveness. To this aim, the paper … analyses two potentially beneficial approaches to deal with uncertainty: the integration of information concerning risk and the … when: 1) managers are required to produce a risk map; 2) dashboards and balanced scorecards are used in relation to the …

manage expectations of the sustainability and risk exposure of the firm. Many studies have documented that VED are fairly …