Managerial Finance: Volume 32 Issue 9

Analyzing and managing risks – on the importance of gender differences in risk attitudes

Renate Schubert

This paper seeks to show optimal strategies for firms to cope with analysis and management of risks.

Providing against the worst: Risk capital for worst case scenarios

Thomas Breuer

Maximum Loss was one of the risk measures proposed as alternatives to Value at Risk following criticism that Value at Risk is not coherent. Although the power of Maximum Loss is…

Asset securitisation as a risk management and funding tool: What small firms need to know

Andreas A. Jobst

The paper surveys the risks and rewards of asset securitisation and illustrates how this structured finance technique can lift credit constraints to small‐ and medium‐sized…

Credit risk management: The use of credit derivatives by non‐financial corporations

Mark C. Freeman, Paul R. Cox, Brian Wright

This paper aims to explore the possible use of credit derivatives by corporate treasurers. Corporations have, in recent years, grown comfortable with the idea of using traditional…

Risk, capital requirements, and the asset structure of companies

Andreas Krause

Financial institutions have been subject to minimum capital requirements for considerable time while other companies do not face any such regulation. This paper investigates the…

Introduction

Andreas Krause