"This book discusses the financial instruments firms use to manage the different kind of financial risks, such as interest rate risk, corporate risk, credit risk, liquidity and default risk and is intended to help the reader understand the risk management practices in different countries, and their relationship to firms' performance, and other dimensions of companies"--.

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Book Series
• Editorial Advisory Board
• List of Contributors
• Table of Contents
• Detailed Table of Contents
• Preface
• Acknowledgment
• Chapter 1: Financial Risk and Corporate Governance
• Chapter 2: The Relationship Between Risk and Firm Performance
• Chapter 3: Gender Diversity and Financial Risk
• Chapter 4: Gender Differences in Risk Tolerance
• Chapter 5: Corruption, Credit Risk, and Bank Profitability
• Chapter 6: Risk Governance and Bank Performance
• Chapter 7: Loss Aversion in Companies Whose Location Is Affected by Fire
• Chapter 8: Risk of Business Bankruptcy
• Chapter 9: The Impact of Social Screening on the Performance of US and European Funds
• Chapter 10: Stock Market Volatility
• Chapter 11: Environmental, Social, and Governance Assets
• Chapter 12: Managing the Current Risks of Companies
• Chapter 13: Boosted Decision Trees for Credit Scoring
• Chapter 14: The Role of Big Data Research Methodologies in Describing Investor Risk Attitudes and Predicting Stock Market Performance
• Chapter 15: Determining Consumer Purchase Intention Toward Counterfeit Luxury Goods Based on the Perceived Risk Theory
• Chapter 16: Insider Transactions and Performance
• Chapter 17: Does Technical Analysis Win?
• Chapter 18: Hedging Effectiveness of the VIX ETPs
• Compilation of References
• About the Contributors
• Index