Handbook of Research on New Challenges and Global Outlooks in Financial Risk Management

  • 10h 42m
  • Elisabete Vieira, Mara Madaleno
  • IGI Global
  • 2022

Risk affects many different companies, industries, and institutions, and the COVID-19 pandemic has caused more challenges than before to arise. In the wake of these new challenges, new risk management strategies must arise. Risk affects many companies differently, though in the aftermath of a global pandemic, similar management strategies may be adapted to maintain a flourishing business. Financial risk management has become increasingly important in the last years, and a profound understanding of this subject is vital.

The Handbook of Research on New Challenges and Global Outlooks in Financial Risk Management discusses the financial instruments firms use to manage the difference kinds of financial risks and risk management practices in a variety of different countries. This book offers an international focus of risk management, comparing different practices from all over the world. Covering topics such as bank stability, environmental assets, and perceived risk theory, this book is a valuable research source for regulatory authorities, accountants, managers, academicians, students, researchers, graduate students, researchers, faculty, and practitioners.

About the Author

Mara Madaleno is Assistant Professor of Finance and Economics at the Department of Economics, Management, Industrial Engineering and Tourist at the University of Aveiro. Finished her Ph.D. in 2011 at the University of Aveiro in Economics. Director of the Master in Economics – Branches: Finance + Business Economics. Full researcher at the GOVCOPP – Research Unit on Governance, Competitiveness and Public Policies, and Vice-Coordinator of the research line SAD – Systems for Decision Support at GOVCOPP. She is also Vice-Director of the Master in Data Science for Social Sciences and Vice- Coordinator of Continua-UA. Her research interests include financial markets, corporate finance and risk, financial economics, financial energy markets, environmental economics, energy and environment, sustainability. Participates in several research projects.

Elisabete Vieira is Coordinator Professor, ISCA-UA, University of Aveiro. She is researcher at the Research Unit on Governance, Competitiveness and Public Policies (GOVCOPP), being Vice Coordinator of the Competitiveness, Innovation and Sustainability (CIS) Research Group. She has a Ph.D. in Finance from the ISCTE, Lisbon. Her research topics include corporate finance, corporate behavior finance, and corporate governance.

In this Book

  • Financial Risk and Corporate Governance—A Bibliometric Analysis
  • The Relationship between Risk and Firm Performance—A Review
  • Gender Diversity and Financial Risk—A Bibliometric Analysis
  • Gender Differences in Risk Tolerance—New Evidence from a Survey of Postgraduate Students
  • Corruption, Credit Risk, and Bank Profitability—Evidence of Angolan Banks
  • Risk Governance and Bank Performance—Do Risk Committee Activism and Finance Experts on the Risk Committee Matter?
  • Loss Aversion in Companies Whose Location is Affected by Fire
  • Risk of Business Bankruptcy—The Application of DEA Method – Case Study of Slovak Businesses
  • The Impact of Social Screening on the Performance of US and European Funds
  • Stock Market Volatility—A Pre- to Post-COVID-19 Analysis of Emerging Markets
  • Environmental, Social, and Governance Assets—Recent History of Green Bonds – Genesis and Current Perspectives
  • Managing the Current Risks of Companies—The Applicability of Tax Risk Management
  • Boosted Decision Trees for Credit Scoring
  • The Role of Big Data Research Methodologies in Describing Investor Risk Attitudes and Predicting Stock Market Performance—Deep Learning and Risk Tolerance
  • Determining Consumer Purchase Intention toward Counterfeit Luxury Goods Based on the Perceived Risk Theory
  • Insider Transactions and Performance—The Portuguese Case
  • Does Technical Analysis Win?—Evidence from the Period between Donald Trump's Campaign and the First Date for Brexit
  • Hedging Effectiveness of the VIX ETPs—An Analysis of the Time-Varying Performance of the VXX
  • Compilation of References
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