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Journal of Risk and Financial Management, Volume 13, Issue 9

2020 September - 36 articles

Cover Story: Crypto-currencies are by now considered an important class of assets whose dominant element is Bitcoin. Risk and portfolio managers in the crypto-market seek to identify their unique appealing characteristics as well as other important features shared with real financial assets. Through several approaches, from simple exploratory methods to complex dynamic econometric models, this paper untangles crypto-currency prices and returns series behavior clarifying hidden interdependences and exposing a cointegrated market that may present joint episodes of large losses and possible bubbles, and where volatility levels are close to real coins. We found a crypto-market in a maturity process which, after a significant extreme joint fall in March 2020, seems to be on hold during the COVID-19 pandemic. View this paper.
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Articles (36)

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
13,921 Views
20 Pages

Capital Structure Choices in Technology Firms: Empirical Results from Polish Listed Companies

  • Marcin Kedzior,
  • Barbara Grabinska,
  • Konrad Grabinski and
  • Dorota Kedzior

The main aim of the paper is the identification of capital structure determinants, with a special emphasis on investments in the innovativeness of Polish New Technology-Based Firms (NTBFs). Poland is a unique country in that it is an emerging market...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
6,164 Views
14 Pages

The Investment Performance of Ethical Equity Funds in Malaysia

  • Fadillah Mansor,
  • M. Ishaq Bhatti,
  • Shafiqur Rahman and
  • Hung Quang Do

This paper investigates the investment performance of Malaysian Islamic equity funds and a matching sample of conventional equity funds relative to their market benchmark. An integrated model is used to simultaneously capture the market timing and se...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,413 Views
20 Pages

Researchers of the Mass Customization domain face not only challenges of proper and timeless identification of latest practical trends, but also difficulties in rational analyses on the numerous existing scientific studies in this field as well as a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
7,649 Views
13 Pages

This paper discusses questions of the gender diversity of corporate boards vis-à-vis firm performance. Typically, researchers have asked if a female presence is associated with improved performance and more transparent governance. The paper&rs...

  • Brief Report
  • Open Access
47 Citations
11,081 Views
16 Pages

Using cross-sectional panel data over eleven years (2009–2019), or 1001 firm-year observations, this study examines the relationship between capital structure and firm performance of service sector firms from Australian stock market. Unlike oth...

  • Article
  • Open Access
68 Citations
14,876 Views
20 Pages

This study aims to explore the relationship between corporate governance and financial performance of publicly listed family and non-family firms in the Japanese manufacturing industry. The study obtains data from Bloomberg over the period 2014&ndash...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,276 Views
31 Pages

The Implications of Derisking: The Case of Malta, a Small EU State

  • Simon Grima,
  • Peter J. Baldacchino,
  • Jeremy Mercieca Abela and
  • Jonathan V. Spiteri

In this study, we explore the emerging derisking phenomenon by identifying and analysing the main factors that are affected by, and the implications of, the derisking process by focusing on the key drivers and implications of derisking specific to Ma...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
6,953 Views
21 Pages

A strong capitalized position of financial institutions is essential to ensure their solvency. Because of their unique nature, banks must always keep an optimum level of capital to ensure smooth banking earnings. Consequently, it is mandatory for all...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,358 Views
18 Pages

The paper aims to answer two main questions. Is it possible to calculate and analyze fiscal, investment and export multipliers in the short term? The classic approach is mainly based on the input–output balances, which are most often published...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
5,624 Views
15 Pages

The paper deals with methods of predicting bankruptcy of a business with the aim of choosing a prediction method which will have exact results. Existing bankruptcy prediction models are a suitable tool for predicting the financial difficulties of bus...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
10,978 Views
16 Pages

Funding Access and Innovation in Small Businesses

  • Ronen Harel,
  • Dafna Schwartz and
  • Dan Kaufmann

The study examined the extent to which lack of access to external funding constitutes a barrier to innovation for small businesses operating in traditional industries. The findings indicate that, these businesses do not view lack of access to funding...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,312 Views
21 Pages

The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether firm ownership characteristics can explain demand for Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) implementation. Specifically, we examine the relationship between the presence of large shareholders, multiple...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
7,027 Views
24 Pages

The main objectives of this paper are to construct a new risk model for modelling the Hybrid-Takaful (Islamic Insurance) and to develop a computational procedure for calculating the associated ruin probability. Ruin probability is an important study...

  • Article
  • Open Access
119 Citations
24,505 Views
17 Pages

Predicting volatility is a must in the finance domain. Estimations of volatility, along with the central tendency, permit us to evaluate the chances of getting a particular result. Financial analysts are frequently challenged with the assignment of d...

  • Review
  • Open Access
3 Citations
9,734 Views
24 Pages

This paper aims aimed to present the trends of the literature review in internal marketing and service innovation between 1990 and 2016. The significant reason to conduct this research is that significant variables of internal marketing to link with...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
6,433 Views
19 Pages

Innovation in SMEs and Financing Mix

  • Joanna Błach,
  • Monika Wieczorek-Kosmala and
  • Joanna Trzęsiok

This study addresses the types of innovation activity of SMEs (Small and medium-sized enterprises) in the European Union and its association with financing decisions. The main objective is to capture the cross-country differences in the types of inno...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
8,499 Views
20 Pages

Nowadays, trade negotiations afford both liberalism- and protectionism-oriented policies. Indeed, in recent decades, the developed countries have been actively engaged in negotiating many preferential agreements to integrate developing countries (DCs...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,529 Views
13 Pages

In this paper, we estimate the Shannon entropy S(f)=E[log(f(x))] of a one-sided linear process with probability density function f(x). We employ the integral estimator Sn(f), which utilizes the standard kernel density estimator fn(x) of f(x)....

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
10,486 Views
11 Pages

Among developing Asian countries that have accelerated their integration with the global economy, Vietnam has achieved remarkable economic development. Vietnam’s development strategy prioritizing the promotion of trade and foreign direct invest...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
5,343 Views
25 Pages

The paper examines the relative performance of Stochastic Volatility (SV) and GARCH(1,1) models fitted to twenty plus years of daily data for three indices. As a benchmark, I use the realized volatility (RV) for the S&P 500, DOW JONES and STOXX50...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,616 Views
18 Pages

This paper reviews research and theory on the important topic of labour turnover resulting from issues related to job performance and/or job satisfaction which have, in turn, been initiated by changes in work motivation. We focus on labour turnover i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,992 Views
24 Pages

Are the Current Account Imbalances on a Sustainable Path?

  • Seema Narayan and
  • Sivagowry Sriananthakumar

This paper examines the current accounts of 16 developed and developing countries over the period 1970 to 2018. We test whether these nations satisfy their intertemporal solvency condition for external imbalances. The solvency condition in the strong...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
5,167 Views
31 Pages

Social Risks of International Labour Migration in the Context of Global Challenges

  • Aleksandra Kuzior,
  • Anna Liakisheva,
  • Iryna Denysiuk,
  • Halyna Oliinyk and
  • Liudmyla Honchar

The results of the study of migration risks of labor migrants from Ukraine are presented in this article. The purpose of the study is to find out the differences in the perception of obstacles and risks that arise in the process of work abroad among...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
5,858 Views
22 Pages

University endowments with broad portfolio diversification have been correlated with performance, but committees’ decision-making process has received relatively little attention. This study is unique in postulating that the committee’s l...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,823 Views
15 Pages

Determining Force behind Value Premium: The Case of Financial Leverage and Operating Leverage

  • Hafiz Muhammad Zia ul haq,
  • Muhammad Sohail Shafiq,
  • Muhammad Kashif and
  • Saba Ameer

The determining force behind the value premium is the matter of debate among the researchers. Some are of the opinion that the financial distress risk determines value premium whereas other theorize that value premium is basically the compensation fo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
7,594 Views
14 Pages

Assessment of Epidemiological Determinants of COVID-19 Pandemic Related to Social and Economic Factors Globally

  • Mohammad Mahmudul Hassan,
  • Md. Abul Kalam,
  • Shahanaj Shano,
  • Md. Raihan Khan Nayem,
  • Md. Kaisar Rahman,
  • Shahneaz Ali Khan and
  • Ariful Islam

The COVID-19 pandemic has manifested more than a health crisis and has severely impacted on social, economic, and development crises in the world. The relationship of COVID-19 with countries’ economic and other demographic statuses is an import...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,000 Views
21 Pages

The purpose of the article is to reveal the problem (and to determine the possibility of solving the structural choice problem) as one of the areas in modern portfolio theory development. The article also argues that portfolio analysis is a method of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
40 Citations
14,387 Views
12 Pages

Green bonds are similar to conventional bonds but are specifically earmarked to raise money to finance climate or environmental projects. There have been anecdotes of green bonds being priced tighter than similar conventional bonds by the same issuer...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
7,643 Views
21 Pages

After more than a decade of existence, crypto-currencies may now be considered an important class of assets presenting some unique appealing characteristics but also sharing some features with real financial assets. This paper provides a comprehensiv...

  • Review
  • Open Access
81 Citations
12,519 Views
19 Pages

This study contributes to the literature on financial security by highlighting the relevance of the perceptions and resulting professional judgment of stakeholders. Assessing a company’s financial security using only economic indicators—a...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
4,881 Views
6 Pages

In this study we examine the volatility-adjusted 60/40 rule at the individual company level. We document that strong diversification benefits exist over the long-term, and that both the equity and corporate bonds exhibit positive expected drifts. For...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,810 Views
11 Pages

True versus Spurious Long Memory in Cryptocurrencies

  • Dooruj Rambaccussing and
  • Murat Mazibas

We test whether the selected cryptocurrencies exhibit long memory behavior in returns and volatility. We use data on five most traded cryptocurrencies: Bitcoin, Litecoin, Ethereum, Bitcoin Cash, and XRP. Using recent tests of long memory developed ag...

  • Article
  • Open Access
84 Citations
15,884 Views
20 Pages

Predicting the Impact of COVID-19 on Australian Universities

  • Arran Thatcher,
  • Mona Zhang,
  • Hayden Todoroski,
  • Anthony Chau,
  • Joanna Wang and
  • Gang Liang

This article explores the impact of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) upon Australia’s education industry with a particular focus on universities. With the high dependence that the revenue structures of Australian universities have on internatio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
9,846 Views
21 Pages

The Bitcoin (BTC) market presents itself as a new unique medium currency, and it is often hailed as the “currency of the future”. Simulating the BTC market in the price discovery process presents a unique set of market mechanics. The supp...

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J. Risk Financial Manag. - ISSN 1911-8074