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Volatility And Jump Risk Premia In Emerging Market Bonds
Jul 2007
There is strong evidence that interest rates and bond yield movements exhibit both stochastic volatility and unanticipated jumps. The presence of frequent jumps makes it natural to ask whether...
Provided by International Monetary Fund
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Podcasts
Risky Business: Analysis From An Engineering Perspective
Jan 2010
Don't set sail without thinking first: this sage advice sums up risk analysis for Elisabeth Paté-Cornell, department chair of Management Science and Engineering at Stanford University. She...
Provided by Stanford University
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White Papers
Kellogg Professor Wins Smith Breeden Prize
Jan 2009
Arvind Krishnamurthy, the Harold Stuart Professor of Finance, has received one of the finance field's top honors: the first-place 2008 Smith Breeden Prize. The prestigious prize is bestowed...
Provided by Northwestern University (Kellogg)
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White Papers
Too Easy To Fall Off The Mountain, Say Experts At Kellogg Risk Summit
Nov 2008
In finance, risk is intimately related to reward, but lately too many investors and executives tended to downplay the downside of making a business gamble. That was one insight that emerged during...
Provided by Northwestern University (Kellogg)
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White Papers
Zell Center Guest Thomas Zelibor: Risk Can Be Positive
Apr 2008
Mention "risk" and many hastily associate it with a negative conclusion. But its meaning, as pointed out by retired Navy Admiral Thomas E. Zelibor, is neutral. "It's typically defined as the...
Provided by Northwestern University (Kellogg)
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White Papers
Flexibility: The Key To A Better Financial System
Oct 2009
Debt is like a cancer, Nobel Laureate Myron Scholes says. "You have to proactively do something to reduce it." "Someone need to think about creating a new, more dynamic accounting system? and new...
Provided by Northwestern University (Kellogg)
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Webcasts
Cost Differentiation Of A Start-Up
May 2008
Less contingency planning, a smaller team, shorter spells of tinkering and perfectionism... Partner at KPCB Beth Seidenberg analyzes the differences in efficiencies between the corporate world and...
Provided by Stanford University
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White Papers
State Pension Funds Headed For Crisis Of National Proportions
May 2010
Taxpayers, public workers and state and federal officials alike have cause for serious concern about an issue that often falls under the radar but poses serious risk to the future health of the...
Provided by Northwestern University (Kellogg)
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White Papers
Portfolio Risk Analysis
Mar 2010
In the investment world, timing is everything. You want to buy assets low before the rest of the world figures out that those assets are cheap, and sell them for a premium before the market...
Provided by Northwestern University (Kellogg)
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Whitepapers
LotusLive Engage Securitywhitepaper: Why is security a competitive differentiator for LotusLive and LotusLive Engage?
Nov 2010
Security is a competitive differentiator for LotusLive and LotusLive Engage. Engage's business-ready security is based on a deep understanding of security and privacy best practices, in both IBM...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
A Comprehensive Approach To Enterprise Risk Information Management
Jan 2010
In the wake of mismanagement that brought down some of the largest corporations, Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) has emerged as an essential discipline for any corporation. Yet successful ERM can...
Provided by Teradata
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White Papers
How Risky Is Your Risk Information?
Jun 2009
A well-designed approach to managing risk information is a critical component of a superior risk management programme. A high-quality risk information management programme continues to be a blind...
Provided by Teradata
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White Papers
Food Cloning - Ethical Considerations For Business Organizations
Sep 2010
It is apparent that more and more cloned food, meat, and milk products will continue to enter the U.S. food supply and most local markets, some with public and consumer knowledge, but most...
Provided by Troy University
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White Papers
Project Risk Management - Advantages And Pitfalls
Dec 2008
Proper project decision-making requires that risk management and risk analysis techniques be applied in order to guide management in making better decisions. Cost estimates attempt to define...
Provided by International Cost Engineering Council
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White Papers
A Qualitative Risk Analysis and Management Tool - CRAMM
Nov 2010
Facing the emerging challenges of the Internet era, managers and information security professionals in business and government should manage specific risks to their organizations to ensure...
Provided by Sans
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White Papers
Enterprise Risk Management: Standard & Poors To Apply Enterprise Risk Analysis To Corporate Ratings
May 2008
ERM will add an additional dimension to the analysis of management and corporate governance, creating a more systematic framework for an inherently subjective topic. Ultimately, the authors will...
Provided by Standard & Poor's
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White Papers
Risk Management In Customs Procedures
Nov 2008
A common characteristic of Customs work is the high volume of transactions and the impossibility of checking all of them. Customs administrations therefore face the challenge of facilitating the...
Provided by United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
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White Papers
Winning In A Downturn: Six Actions To Take Now
Nov 2009
According to many indicators, a recession is either looming or already here. Yet because the business landscape has changed so much since the last recession, in 2001, the defensive and offensive...
Provided by Boston Consulting Group
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White Papers
Innovation 2010: A Return To Prominence-And The Emergence Of A New World Order
Apr 2010
Businesses are tempering their innovation investments in RDEs. Forty-one percent of respondents said their company plans to raise its R&D investment in RDEs in 2010, down from 45 percent in 2009....
Provided by Boston Consulting Group
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White Papers
Rethinking Risk Management In Financial Services: Practices From Other Domains
Apr 2010
The financial crisis has, to put it mildly, seriously challenged our traditional approach to risk management. Consequently, a number of individuals and institutions have advanced ideas for...
Provided by WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM
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White Papers
Managing Your Wireless Workforce
Nov 2010
Explosive growth in the mobile workforce has led to increasing attention paid to the security of mobile data and devices. Mobile data security is most effective when implemented in a series of...
Provided by Symantec
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White Papers
Securing Data in the Cloud
Nov 2010
This document is intended to give a broad overview of our security policies, processes and practices current at the date of writing. It would be impossible to describe all security controls in a...
Provided by Symantec
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White Papers
How To Create A PR Crisis Strategy Before You Need It
Sep 2010
The day you realize that you need a crisis strategy is usually the day you have a crisis. It's rare for small business owners to think about how to handle a crisis when they aren't in crisis mode....
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
How To Plan For The Unexpected
Sep 2010
Perhaps the last thing most small business owners think about is planning for a potential natural disaster. Who has the time to prepare for something that may never happen? But that attitude can...
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
Crisis Pricing For The Downturn And After
Sep 2009
The recession is no time for pricing as usual. In a cycle of collapsing demand, volatile sourcing costs, and increasingly intense competition, you need all hands on deck to protect prices. And...
Provided by Boston Consulting Group
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White Papers
Demonstrating Leadership: How The Chief Information Officer Can Help Beat The Downturn
Nov 2008
The financial crisis is far worse than anyone predicted even a few weeks ago. Initial estimates put the likely losses of financial institutions globally at around $1.5 trillion, with a resulting...
Provided by Boston Consulting Group
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White Papers
Thriving Under Adversity: Strategies For Growth In The Crisis And Beyond
May 2009
Faced with the worst recession since the 1930s, many companies are reacting as bears do to winter - by hibernating. They are shrinking production capacity, downsizing their labor force, reducing...
Provided by Boston Consulting Group
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White Papers
Measuring Innovation 2009
Apr 2009
Good decision making hinges on good information. That rule applies to all aspects of business, particularly innovation. Yet companies routinely do a poor job of measuring their innovation efforts...
Provided by Boston Consulting Group
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White Papers
Collateral Damage: Part5 - Confronting The New Realities Of A World In Crisis
Mar 2009
Commentators have frequently used the word "Unprecedented" to describe the crisis. And for today's executives, the combination of financial and economic upheaval is without equal in their working...
Provided by Boston Consulting Group
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White Papers
Sourcing Consumer Products In Asia: Managing Risk And Turning Crisis To Advantage
Mar 2009
Even before tile world's economy plunged into recession, many companies had already begun to reexamine their low-cost country (LCC) sourcing strategies Asia in light of currency fluctuations and...
Provided by Boston Consulting Group
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White Papers
Living With New Realities
Feb 2009
Banks originated loans but were less concerned with the underlying quality of these assets because they could quickly offload them to investors. And in the United States, mortgage brokers poured...
Provided by Boston Consulting Group
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White Papers
Best Practices In Risk-Based Internal Auditing
Nov 2009
In designing risk-based auditing and monitoring activities, it is important that the internal auditor works closely with the organization's senior leadership and the board, or committee of the...
Provided by Bloomsbury Information
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White Papers
Asian Private Equity: Coming Of Age
Oct 2010
Asian private equity's long-term returns have not been exceptional; while on par with returns in the United States, they are quite a bit behind Western Europe. Ten-year net returns for Asia stand...
Provided by INSEAD
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White Papers
Buybacks Are Back: Strategy Pays Off With Returns Of 103.5 Per Cent In First Year
Nov 2010
The basic strategy is to invest in US companies (1) that announce open market repurchase programmes and (2) that seem to be motivated by an undervalued stock price. Past research has shown that...
Provided by INSEAD
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White Papers
Investing In Unknown Stocks Could Yield Higher Returns
Aug 2010
The study found that investors stand to gain comparatively higher returns by punting on stocks that have no media coverage than those that enjoy a high media profile. Indeed, the study's survey of...
Provided by INSEAD
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White Papers
Risk Assessment: Keep It Simple
Jan 2010
The ability to assess risk and uncertainty is critical for investment banks and businesses. While some may advocate the use of complex models, INSEAD Dean of Faculty and Professor of Decision...
Provided by INSEAD
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White Papers
Reputational Risk Management: A Key Determinant Of Competitive Performance
Jan 2010
Assessing the damage to reputation takes a lot of data. "First the reputation-sensitive events have to be identified in terms of precisely when they become known to the market," Walter says. "Then...
Provided by INSEAD
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White Papers
IPOs: Evaluating Failure Risk
Jan 2010
To what extent can one predict whether a new stock exchange listing or initial public offering (IPO) is going to fail? This is a question of major significance for investors and the firm's...
Provided by INSEAD
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White Papers
Introduction To Managing Risk
Feb 2008
Risk is a condition in which there exists a quantifiable dispersion in the possible outcomes from any activity. It can be classified in a number of ways.' 'Uncertain future events which could...
Provided by CIMA
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White Papers
Banks Use CRM To Drive Profitability, Cut Costs, Reduce Risk
Apr 2010
According to First Research, ¯The profitability of individual banks depends on marketing skills, efficient operations, and good risk management. Achieving that is difficult enough in a normal...
Provided by Microsoft Dynamics
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White Papers
Solving The Present Crisis And Managing The Leverage Cycle
Jan 2010
The present crisis is the bottom of a recurring problem that the author calls the leverage cycle, in which leverage gradually rises too high then suddenly falls much too low. The government must...
Provided by Yale University
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White Papers
History-Dependent Risk Attitude
Feb 2011
The authors propose a model of History-Dependent Risk Attitude (HDRA), allowing the attitude of a Decision-Maker (DM) towards risk at each stage of a T-stage lottery to evolve as a function of his...
Provided by Yale University
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White Papers
Endogenous Leverage: VAR And Beyond
May 2011
The authors study endogenous leverage in a general equilibrium model with incomplete markets. They prove that in any binary tree leverage emerges in equilibrium at the maximum level such that...
Provided by Yale University
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White Papers
Mr. Trader, Would You Like To Change Your Order?
Oct 2007
Limit order cancellation and revision are common activities in most order-driven markets. More than 60 percent of limit orders are cancelled and revised. The microstructure literature suggests...
Provided by University of New South Wales
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White Papers
Uncertainty And The Price Of Risk In A Nominal Convergence Process
Mar 2008
In this paper, the authors decompose nominal interest rates into real risk-free rates, inflation expectations and risk premia using an affine model that takes as factors the observed inflation...
Provided by Banco de España
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White Papers
Risky Choice And Type-uncertainty In "Deal Or No Deal?"
Dec 2007
This paper uses data from the popular television game-show, "Deal or No Deal?" to analyze the way individuals make choices under risk. In a unique approach to the problem, the author presents a...
Provided by University of Cambridge
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White Papers
Model Averaging In Risk Management With An Application To Futures Markets
Feb 2008
This paper considers the problem of model uncertainty in the case of multi-asset volatility models and discusses the use of model averaging techniques as a way of dealing with the risk of...
Provided by University of Cambridge
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White Papers
The Impact Of Management Earnings Forecasts On Firm Risk And Firm Value
May 2009
This paper investigates whether voluntary management disclosure of earnings forecasts influences investors' long-term assessment of firm risk and firm value. The authors control for possible...
Provided by University of Western Ontario
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White Papers
Measuring The Systemic Importance Of Interconnected Banks
Mar 2011
The authors develop a measure of systemic importance that accounts for the extent to which a bank propagates shocks across the banking system and is vulnerable to propagated shocks. Based on...
Provided by Bank for International Settlements
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White Papers
Dislocations In The Won-Dollar Swap Markets During The Crisis Of 2007-09
Apr 2011
Foreign eXchange (FX) derivatives markets in the Korean won are comparatively thin and vulnerable to impaired functioning. During the crisis, Korea faced dislocations in its FX swap and...
Provided by Bank for International Settlements
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White Papers
How Does Competition Impact Bank Risk-Taking?
Mar 2010
A common assumption in the academic literature is that franchise value plays a key role in limiting bank risk-taking. As market power is the primary source of franchise value, reduced competition...
Provided by Banco de España
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White Papers
A Systematic Approach To Multi-Period Stress Testing Of Portfolio Credit Risk
Jun 2010
The authors propose a new method for analysing multiperiod stress scenarios for portfolio credit risk more systematically than in the current practice of macro stress testing. The method...
Provided by Banco de España
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White Papers
Distress Risk Premia In Stock And Bond Returns
Jul 2007
This paper investigates whether the potential for rent extraction due to shareholders' strategic actions is reflected ex ante in stock and bond prices based on a joint study of stock and bond...
Provided by University of Arizona
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White Papers
Ownership Patterns, Market Discipline, And Banks' Risk Taking Incentives Under Deposit Insurance
Oct 2007
The paper studies the effect of two governance factors, ownership structure and creditor discipline, on banks' risk-taking incentives in the presence of deposit insurance and related bank safety...
Provided by Lund University
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White Papers
Daily Asset Return Movements And Value-At-Risk Under Alternative Classes Of Model Specifications
Jul 2007
This paper compares the statistical and economic performances of two broad classes of model specifications for daily asset returns. Their findings suggest that the class of fat-tailed...
Provided by Florida Institute of Technology
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White Papers
Does Aggregate Relative Risk Aversion Change Countercyclically Over Time? Evidence From The Stock Market
Jun 2007
Using a semiparametric estimation technique, the authors show that the stock market risk-return tradeoff and Sharpe ratio increase monotonically with the consumption-wealth ratio (CAY) across...
Provided by Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
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White Papers
The Empirical Importance Of Background Risks
Apr 2008
This paper uses a long panel data set to investigate the empirical importance of background risks on a household's asset allocation and on asset returns. The authors construct a set of...
Provided by Rutgers, State University of New Jersey
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White Papers
Accounting Information Quality, Stock Returns, And Macroeconomic Conditions
Jun 2008
This paper reexamines whether accounting information quality proxied by Accruals Quality (AQ) is priced. In two-stage cross-sectional regression tests, the authors find that the AQ risk factor is...
Provided by Rutgers, State University of New Jersey
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White Papers
Why Some Distressed Firms Have Low Expected Returns
Sep 2007
In recent years, empirical researchers show that firms with higher credit risk have much smaller average stock returns. This finding is opposite to the risk-reward principle and is often...
Provided by University of Tokyo
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White Papers
Impaired Bank Health And Default Risk
May 2008
Empirical studies in corporate finance have long been focused on the role of banks in reducing the costs of financial distress. The environment and events in Japan provide a "Natural experiment"...
Provided by University of Tokyo
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White Papers
Minimaxity Of The Stein Risk-Minimization Estimator For A Normal Mean Matrix
Jul 2008
This paper addresses the Stein conjecture in the simultaneous estimation of a matrix mean of a multivariate normal distribution with a known covariance matrix. Stein (1973) derived an unbiased...
Provided by University of Tokyo
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White Papers
Analyzing The Interest Rate Risk Of Banks Using Time Series Of Accounting-Based Data: Evidence From Germany
Jul 2007
This paper describes the first thorough analysis of the interest risk of German banks on an individual bank level. The authors develop a new method that is based on time series of accounting-based...
Provided by Catholic University of Eichstatt-Ingolstadt
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White Papers
Employment Risk, Compensation Incentives And Managerial Risk Taking
Jun 2007
The authors examine the influence of incentives due to employment risk and due to compensation on managerial risk taking. Their empirical investigation of the risk taking behavior of equity fund...
Provided by University of Cologne
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White Papers
Systemic Risk And Competition In OTC Derivatives Dealing: Evidence From Client Failures
Sep 2007
The authors examine the extent of systemic risk and competition in the over-the-counter derivatives dealers segment of the financial services industry. The analysis of a series of...
Provided by Seattle University
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White Papers
The Effects Of Credit Derivatives On U.S. Bank Risk And Return, Capital And Lending Structure
Jun 2007
The authors examine the effects of credit derivatives on BHC risk and return by separating users of credit derivatives into three categories: Protection buyers, protection sellers, and active...
Provided by University of Arkansas
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White Papers
Probability Distribution And Option Pricing For Drawdown In A Stochastic Volatility Environment
Jun 2009
This paper studies the probability distribution and option pricing for drawdown in a stochastic volatility environment. Their analytical approximation formulas are derived by the application of a...
Provided by University of Tokyo
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White Papers
Modelling Conditional Correlations For Risk Diversification In Crude Oil Markets
Aug 2009
This paper estimates univariate and multivariate conditional volatility and conditional correlation models of spot, forward and futures returns from three major benchmarks of international crude...
Provided by University of Tokyo
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White Papers
A Decision Rule To Minimize Daily Capital Charges In Forecasting Value-at-Risk
Aug 2009
Under the Basel II Accord, banks and other Authorized Deposit-taking Institutions (ADIs) have to communicate their daily risk estimates to the monetary authorities at the beginning of the trading...
Provided by University of Tokyo
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White Papers
Modelling Short And Long Haul Volatility In Japanese Tourist Arrivals To New Zealand And Taiwan
Aug 2009
This paper estimates the effects of short and long haul volatility (or risk) in monthly Japanese tourist arrivals to Taiwan and New Zealand, respectively. In order to model appropriately the...
Provided by University of Tokyo
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White Papers
Assessing Portfolio Credit Risk Changes In A Sample Of EU Large And Complex Banking Groups In Reaction To Macroeconomic Shocks
Feb 2009
In terms of regulatory and economic capital, credit risk is the most significant risk faced by banks. The authors implement a credit risk model - based on publicly available information - with the...
Provided by European Central Bank
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White Papers
Liquidity (Risk) Concepts: Definitions And Interactions
Feb 2009
The authors discuss the notion of liquidity and liquidity risk within the financial system. They distinguish between three different liquidity types, central bank liquidity, funding and market...
Provided by European Central Bank
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White Papers
What Do Asset Prices Have To Say About Risk Appetite And Uncertainty?
Mar 2009
Implied volatility indices should have information about risk parameters, once they are cleansed of the influence of normal volatility dynamics and macroeconomic uncertainty. Building on intuition...
Provided by European Central Bank
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White Papers
Risk Spillover Among Hedge Funds: The Role Of Redemptions And Fund Failures
Nov 2009
This paper aims at analysing the mortality patterns of hedge funds over the period January 1994 to May 2008. In particular, the authors investigate the extent to which a spillover of risk among...
Provided by European Central Bank
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White Papers
Balance Sheet Interlinkages And Macro-Financial Risk Analysis In The Euro Area
Dec 2009
The financial crisis has highlighted the need for models that can identify counterparty risk exposures and shock transmission processes at the systemic level. The authors use the euro area...
Provided by European Central Bank
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White Papers
Measuring Risk Disclosure In IPOs and Its Effect On Initial And Subsequent Returns
Aug 2007
Regulation S-K requires newly public companies to disclose the most significant risk factors affecting their business in the offering prospectus. The authors investigate whether these revealed...
Provided by University of Richmond
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White Papers
Default Risk In The U.S. Mortgage Market
Sep 2007
The authors analyse the default risk inherent in various house financing strategies, using a real options analysis. An empirical model is fit to US house price and interest rate data, and this is...
Provided by University of Iowa
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White Papers
Why Do Firms Speculate? Evidence From The Gold Mining Industry
Sep 2007
The authors study the selective hedging puzzle, using data on the speculative activity of a sample of North American gold mining firms. They find that smaller firms speculate more than larger...
Provided by National University of Singapore
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White Papers
Commonality In Misvaluation, Equity Financing, And The Cross Section Of Stock Returns
Jul 2007
Behavioral theories suggest that investor misperceptions and market mispricing will be correlated across firms. This paper tests how equity financing identifies commonality in stock misvaluation....
Provided by University of California
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White Papers
Downside Four-Moment Tail Risk And Its Effect On Financial And Commodity Diversification
Sep 2007
Diversification studies typically concentrate on the correlation between the return series of assets, while the measurement of risk focuses on the standard deviation. However, portfolio managers...
Provided by University of Alaska
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White Papers
Value-At-Risk For Country Risk Ratings
Sep 2009
The country risk literature argues that country risk ratings have a direct impact on the cost of borrowings as they reflect the probability of debt default by a country. An improvement in country...
Provided by University of Tokyo
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Whitepapers
LotusLive Engage Securitywhitepaper: Why is security a competitive differentiator for LotusLive and LotusLive Engage?
Nov 2010
Security is a competitive differentiator for LotusLive and LotusLive Engage. Engage's business-ready security is based on a deep understanding of security and privacy best practices, in both IBM...
Provided by IBM
-
White Papers
A Comprehensive Approach To Enterprise Risk Information Management
Jan 2010
In the wake of mismanagement that brought down some of the largest corporations, Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) has emerged as an essential discipline for any corporation. Yet successful ERM can...
Provided by Teradata
-
White Papers
How Risky Is Your Risk Information?
Jun 2009
A well-designed approach to managing risk information is a critical component of a superior risk management programme. A high-quality risk information management programme continues to be a blind...
Provided by Teradata
-
White Papers
Food Cloning - Ethical Considerations For Business Organizations
Sep 2010
It is apparent that more and more cloned food, meat, and milk products will continue to enter the U.S. food supply and most local markets, some with public and consumer knowledge, but most...
Provided by Troy University
-
White Papers
Project Risk Management - Advantages And Pitfalls
Dec 2008
Proper project decision-making requires that risk management and risk analysis techniques be applied in order to guide management in making better decisions. Cost estimates attempt to define...
Provided by International Cost Engineering Council
-
White Papers
A Qualitative Risk Analysis and Management Tool - CRAMM
Nov 2010
Facing the emerging challenges of the Internet era, managers and information security professionals in business and government should manage specific risks to their organizations to ensure...
Provided by Sans
-
White Papers
Enterprise Risk Management: Standard & Poors To Apply Enterprise Risk Analysis To Corporate Ratings
May 2008
ERM will add an additional dimension to the analysis of management and corporate governance, creating a more systematic framework for an inherently subjective topic. Ultimately, the authors will...
Provided by Standard & Poor's
-
White Papers
Risk Management In Customs Procedures
Nov 2008
A common characteristic of Customs work is the high volume of transactions and the impossibility of checking all of them. Customs administrations therefore face the challenge of facilitating the...
Provided by United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
-
White Papers
Winning In A Downturn: Six Actions To Take Now
Nov 2009
According to many indicators, a recession is either looming or already here. Yet because the business landscape has changed so much since the last recession, in 2001, the defensive and offensive...
Provided by Boston Consulting Group
-
White Papers
Innovation 2010: A Return To Prominence-And The Emergence Of A New World Order
Apr 2010
Businesses are tempering their innovation investments in RDEs. Forty-one percent of respondents said their company plans to raise its R&D investment in RDEs in 2010, down from 45 percent in 2009....
Provided by Boston Consulting Group
-
White Papers
Rethinking Risk Management In Financial Services: Practices From Other Domains
Apr 2010
The financial crisis has, to put it mildly, seriously challenged our traditional approach to risk management. Consequently, a number of individuals and institutions have advanced ideas for...
Provided by WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM
-
White Papers
Managing Your Wireless Workforce
Nov 2010
Explosive growth in the mobile workforce has led to increasing attention paid to the security of mobile data and devices. Mobile data security is most effective when implemented in a series of...
Provided by Symantec
-
White Papers
Securing Data in the Cloud
Nov 2010
This document is intended to give a broad overview of our security policies, processes and practices current at the date of writing. It would be impossible to describe all security controls in a...
Provided by Symantec
-
White Papers
How To Create A PR Crisis Strategy Before You Need It
Sep 2010
The day you realize that you need a crisis strategy is usually the day you have a crisis. It's rare for small business owners to think about how to handle a crisis when they aren't in crisis mode....
Provided by American Express
-
White Papers
How To Plan For The Unexpected
Sep 2010
Perhaps the last thing most small business owners think about is planning for a potential natural disaster. Who has the time to prepare for something that may never happen? But that attitude can...
Provided by American Express
-
White Papers
Crisis Pricing For The Downturn And After
Sep 2009
The recession is no time for pricing as usual. In a cycle of collapsing demand, volatile sourcing costs, and increasingly intense competition, you need all hands on deck to protect prices. And...
Provided by Boston Consulting Group
-
White Papers
Demonstrating Leadership: How The Chief Information Officer Can Help Beat The Downturn
Nov 2008
The financial crisis is far worse than anyone predicted even a few weeks ago. Initial estimates put the likely losses of financial institutions globally at around $1.5 trillion, with a resulting...
Provided by Boston Consulting Group
-
White Papers
Thriving Under Adversity: Strategies For Growth In The Crisis And Beyond
May 2009
Faced with the worst recession since the 1930s, many companies are reacting as bears do to winter - by hibernating. They are shrinking production capacity, downsizing their labor force, reducing...
Provided by Boston Consulting Group
-
White Papers
Measuring Innovation 2009
Apr 2009
Good decision making hinges on good information. That rule applies to all aspects of business, particularly innovation. Yet companies routinely do a poor job of measuring their innovation efforts...
Provided by Boston Consulting Group
-
White Papers
Collateral Damage: Part5 - Confronting The New Realities Of A World In Crisis
Mar 2009
Commentators have frequently used the word "Unprecedented" to describe the crisis. And for today's executives, the combination of financial and economic upheaval is without equal in their working...
Provided by Boston Consulting Group
-
White Papers
Sourcing Consumer Products In Asia: Managing Risk And Turning Crisis To Advantage
Mar 2009
Even before tile world's economy plunged into recession, many companies had already begun to reexamine their low-cost country (LCC) sourcing strategies Asia in light of currency fluctuations and...
Provided by Boston Consulting Group
-
White Papers
Living With New Realities
Feb 2009
Banks originated loans but were less concerned with the underlying quality of these assets because they could quickly offload them to investors. And in the United States, mortgage brokers poured...
Provided by Boston Consulting Group
-
White Papers
Best Practices In Risk-Based Internal Auditing
Nov 2009
In designing risk-based auditing and monitoring activities, it is important that the internal auditor works closely with the organization's senior leadership and the board, or committee of the...
Provided by Bloomsbury Information
-
White Papers
Asian Private Equity: Coming Of Age
Oct 2010
Asian private equity's long-term returns have not been exceptional; while on par with returns in the United States, they are quite a bit behind Western Europe. Ten-year net returns for Asia stand...
Provided by INSEAD
-
White Papers
Buybacks Are Back: Strategy Pays Off With Returns Of 103.5 Per Cent In First Year
Nov 2010
The basic strategy is to invest in US companies (1) that announce open market repurchase programmes and (2) that seem to be motivated by an undervalued stock price. Past research has shown that...
Provided by INSEAD
-
White Papers
Investing In Unknown Stocks Could Yield Higher Returns
Aug 2010
The study found that investors stand to gain comparatively higher returns by punting on stocks that have no media coverage than those that enjoy a high media profile. Indeed, the study's survey of...
Provided by INSEAD
-
White Papers
Risk Assessment: Keep It Simple
Jan 2010
The ability to assess risk and uncertainty is critical for investment banks and businesses. While some may advocate the use of complex models, INSEAD Dean of Faculty and Professor of Decision...
Provided by INSEAD
-
White Papers
Reputational Risk Management: A Key Determinant Of Competitive Performance
Jan 2010
Assessing the damage to reputation takes a lot of data. "First the reputation-sensitive events have to be identified in terms of precisely when they become known to the market," Walter says. "Then...
Provided by INSEAD
-
White Papers
IPOs: Evaluating Failure Risk
Jan 2010
To what extent can one predict whether a new stock exchange listing or initial public offering (IPO) is going to fail? This is a question of major significance for investors and the firm's...
Provided by INSEAD
-
White Papers
Introduction To Managing Risk
Feb 2008
Risk is a condition in which there exists a quantifiable dispersion in the possible outcomes from any activity. It can be classified in a number of ways.' 'Uncertain future events which could...
Provided by CIMA
-
White Papers
Banks Use CRM To Drive Profitability, Cut Costs, Reduce Risk
Apr 2010
According to First Research, ¯The profitability of individual banks depends on marketing skills, efficient operations, and good risk management. Achieving that is difficult enough in a normal...
Provided by Microsoft Dynamics
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Whitepapers
Fraud Prevention and Detection for Credit and Debit Card Transactions
Dec 2010
The key value of adopting BRMS to provide fraud detection capabilities lies in the flexibility that this methodology offers from an installation and a business-use perspective. BRMS offers the...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Solution Brief: Homeland Security: Screening and Targeting
Dec 2010
Learn how IBM WebSphere ILOG software enables homeland security and law enforcement agencies to achieve their objectives for detailed and consistent screening, implementing policy and risk updates...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
The Role Of Network Behavior Analysis & Response Systems In The Enterprise
Nov 2009
Organizations face escalating security risks and network availability requirements as they open their networks for communications and transactions with key customers, critical business partners...
Provided by Lancope
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White Papers
Oracle Fusion for Governance, Risk and Compliance - The New Standard for Risk Management & Compliance
Dec 2010
Oracle Fusion Governance, Risk, and Compliance combines vital risk and compliance oversight with automated controls enforcement. This unique integration allows firms not only to meet current...
Provided by Oracle
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White Papers
Optimization Under Uncertainty For Operational Planning Of Petroleum Refineries
Aug 2010
In this paper, author describe a Nonlinear Programming (NLP) model for operational planning of oil refineries, considering uncertainties related to oil supply and refinery capacity. Three...
Provided by Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro
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White Papers
Average And Marginal Tobin's q As Indicators Of Future Growth Opportunities, Expected Return, And Risk
Dec 2008
Contrary to popular opinion, average Tobin's q is a better indicator of future growth opportunities than marginal Tobin's q. The authors derive a curious relation between average and marginal q:...
Provided by University of California, Los Angeles (Anderson)
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White Papers
Urban Adaptation To Low Probability Shocks: Contrasting Terrorism And Natural Disaster Risk
Sep 2010
Suburbanization is a long-run trend in cities around the world. All households and firms face tradeoffs in terms of location choice. Until recently, urban centers were the cultural and social...
Provided by University of California, Los Angeles (Anderson)
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White Papers
Value Creation Through Securitization: Evidence From The CMBS Market
Feb 2008
Despite recent volatility and constraints in secondary market funding, analysts have ascribed substantial value creation to the securitization of commercial mortgages. Such value creation likely...
Provided by University of California, Los Angeles (Anderson)
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White Papers
Corporate Bond Default Risk: A 150-Year Perspective
Mar 2010
The authors study corporate bond default rates using an extensive new data set spanning the 1866−2008 period. They find that the corporate bond market has repeatedly suffered clustered...
Provided by University of California, Los Angeles (Anderson)
