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Journal of Risk and Financial Management, Volume 15, Issue 12

2022 December - 75 articles

Cover Story: The objective of this study was to apply explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) techniques to credit scoring in banking, in order to interpret and justify black-box-like artificial intelligence (AI) models’ predictions. Current AI models are often perceived as black boxes, whose output is difficult to interpret. With the implementation of the Basel II agreement and the General Data Protection Regulation, European banks must now abide by strict regulations enforcing a certain level of explainability in all decision-making data-based models. We contribute to the literature by implementing an AI-based credit-scoring model on a real-life dataset from a bank, benchmarking it to the bank’s current logistic regression (LR) model to explain and interpret the results using XAI. View this paper
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Articles (75)

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,295 Views
13 Pages

Periods of economic turmoil distort the ability of stock prices to reflect the available information. In the last three decades, emerging markets experienced numerous crises. The major three of them are the Asian Financial Crisis (1997–1998), G...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
5,788 Views
16 Pages

The Relationship between Managers’ Disclosure Tone and the Trading Volume of Investors

  • Azam Pouryousof,
  • Farzaneh Nassirzadeh,
  • Reza Hesarzadeh and
  • Davood Askarany

The present research investigates the relationship between managers’ disclosure tone and the trading volume of small and large investors separately. The inconsistency of disclosure tone and abnormal trading volume generally indicates information asym...

  • Article
  • Open Access
52 Citations
7,946 Views
19 Pages

The Role of E-Accounting Adoption on Business Performance: The Moderating Role of COVID-19

  • Abdalwali Lutfi,
  • Saleh Nafeth Alkelani,
  • Hamza Alqudah,
  • Ahmad Farhan Alshira’h,
  • Malek Hamed Alshirah,
  • Mohammed Amin Almaiah,
  • Adi Alsyouf,
  • Mahmaod Alrawad,
  • Abdelhameed Montash and
  • Osama Abdelmaksoud

In the last decade, information systems (ISs) have made dynamic developments in light of their ability to enhance the performances of businesses. In relation to this, an organization that is effectively and efficiently managed often displays optimum...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,469 Views
8 Pages

In finance, implied volatility is an important indicator that reflects the market situation immediately. Many practitioners estimate volatility by using iteration methods, such as the Newton–Raphson (NR) method. However, if numerous implied vol...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,662 Views
24 Pages

Social Security Payments and Financialization: Lessons from the Greek Case

  • Dionysios Kyriakopoulos,
  • John Yfantopoulos and
  • Theodoros V. Stamatopoulos

This paper is founded on both the theoretical schemes of financialization, as a new regime of accumulation, and the shareholder value, the everyday finance, the structured finance, as well as the finance-led growth regime, whose special institutional...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,492 Views
26 Pages

In this paper, we provide useful lessons from a quantitative analysis across several nonprofit organisations undergoing generational change due to the implementation of the Australian government’s National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). This pap...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
7,607 Views
22 Pages

Countering Cybercrime Risks in Financial Institutions: Forecasting Information Trends

  • Aleksandra Kuzior,
  • Paulina Brożek,
  • Olha Kuzmenko,
  • Hanna Yarovenko and
  • Tetyana Vasilyeva

This article aims to forecast the information trends related to the most popular cyberattacks, seen as the cyber-crimes’ consequences reflecting on the Internet. The study database was formed based on online users’ search engine requests...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,580 Views
17 Pages

Research on the impact of transparency and disclosures (TD) on the firm’s valuation presents an ambiguous result. The effect of disclosure on value is a concern because disclosure is not an economic activity. It grows further due to the embelli...

  • Review
  • Open Access
6 Citations
22,854 Views
17 Pages

Corporate Investment Decision: A Review of Literature

  • Umar Farooq,
  • Mosab I. Tabash,
  • Ahmad A. Al-Naimi and
  • Krzysztof Drachal

This study is an attempt to review relevant literature on the theme of corporate real investment decisions. We have conducted a comprehensive survey of literature on the studies published in well-reputed journals of finance, i.e., The Journal of Fina...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,869 Views
12 Pages

Most professional soccer players’ careers end before their forties. Consequently, many of them face a relatively early retirement from their profession, thus facing multifaceted changes and potential issues of adjustments in different areas of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
6,029 Views
18 Pages

It is debatable whether the regulatory Sandbox contributes to financial institutions’ growth. We used a panel sample of 24 challenger banks from the UK. This study has reviewed digital banks’ adoption of a regulatory sandbox to foster inn...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,196 Views
12 Pages

Stability and Growth Pact: Too Young to Die, Too Old to Rock ‘n’ Roll

  • Patroklos Patsoulis,
  • Marios Psychalis and
  • Georgios A. Deirmentzoglou

This paper discusses the future of the Stability and Growth Pact (hereafter SGP). Although Neoclassical economic models argue that strict fiscal and monetary rules minimize moral hazard and crowding out, in practice many governments adopt fiscal expa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,317 Views
18 Pages

The investigation of the fractal nature of financial data has been growing in the literature. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the efficiency of agricultural futures markets by using multifractal detr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
6,048 Views
15 Pages

To explore the impact of knowledge-based dynamic capabilities on enterprise performance mechanisms, on the basis of dynamic capabilities theory and upper echelons theory and according to the collected sample data using a structural equation model in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,868 Views
30 Pages

A data envelopment analysis (DEA) has yet to be chosen to assess countries’ financial inclusion levels. We introduce an application of the DEA methodology to compute aggregate performance measures regarding the financial inclusion of economies....

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
8,664 Views
22 Pages

The Effect of IFRS Adoption on the Business Climate: A Country Perspective

  • Daniela Penela,
  • João Estevão and
  • Ana Isabel Morais

Based on the ten areas that are measured by the ease of doing business (EDB) and based on the getting credit (GC) indicator, this study seeks to analyze factors that lead to a more favorable business climate in different countries. The methodology of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,201 Views
22 Pages

Do the Inward and Outward Foreign Direct Investments Spur Domestic Investment in Bangladesh? A Counterfactual Analysis

  • Md. Monirul Islam,
  • Mohammad Tareque,
  • Abu N. M. Wahid,
  • Md. Mahmudul Alam and
  • Kazi Sohag

The net contribution of the decomposed measures of foreign direct investment (FDIs), e.g., the inward and outward flows of FDIs, to domestic investment is still inconclusive in the case of underdeveloped and developing countries. The current literatu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,392 Views
12 Pages

It is common practice to employ returns, price differences or log returns for financial risk estimation and time series forecasting. In De Prado’s 2018 book, it was argued that by using returns we lose memory of time series. In order to verify...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,608 Views
11 Pages

Hedonic Models of Real Estate Prices: GAM Models; Environmental and Sex-Offender-Proximity Factors

  • Jason Robert Bailey,
  • Davide Lauria,
  • W. Brent Lindquist,
  • Stefan Mittnik and
  • Svetlozar T. Rachev

We investigate the use of a P-spline generalized additive hedonic model (GAM) for real estate prices in large U.S. cities, contrasting their predictive efficiency against commonly used linear and polynomial-based generalized linear models (GLM). Usin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,053 Views
17 Pages

The extant literature on the association of political connectedness and performance of large firms has led to controversial results, while the context of micro-, small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) has largely been overlooked in relevant studi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,904 Views
14 Pages

Global Social Sustainability and Inclusion: The “Voice” of Social and Environmental Imbalances

  • Andriy Krysovatyy,
  • Iryna Zvarych,
  • Oksana Brodovska and
  • Roman Zvarych

Background: Global environmental and social research strengthens the protection of people and the environment, develops national capacity for social and environmental management and enables significant progress in terms of transparency, accountabilit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,386 Views
23 Pages

Modeling the Risks of the Global Customs Space

  • Olha Borysenko,
  • Olena Vasyl’yeva,
  • Olga Katerna,
  • Iuliia Masiuk and
  • Oleg Panakhi

The influence of globalization processes, the customs space of the country, requires the development and implementation of a transparent state customs policy to ensure security and integration into the space of the higher hierarchical order. The purp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
9,911 Views
15 Pages

Banks generally use credit scoring models to assess the creditworthiness of customers when they apply for loans or credit. These models perform significantly worse when used on potential new customers than existing customers, due to the lack of finan...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
5,902 Views
23 Pages

Global Spillovers of a Chinese Growth Slowdown

  • Shaghil Ahmed,
  • Ricardo Correa,
  • Daniel A. Dias,
  • Nils Gornemann,
  • Jasper Hoek,
  • Anil Jain,
  • Edith Liu and
  • Anna Wong

This paper analyzes the potential spillovers of a slowdown in Chinese growth to the United States and the rest of the world. Through a combination of structural VAR and DSGE analyses, we find that (1) spillovers from China to the rest of the world ha...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,540 Views
13 Pages

Credit institutions, according to the 2014/95/EU Directive (implemented in Italy with Legislative Decree No. 254/2016) are obliged to report non-financial and diversity information. Our article focuses on the diversity information to investigate whet...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,130 Views
20 Pages

The popularity of staging Olympic Games has dropped in democratic countries as a series of failed referenda and withdrawn bids as well as protests against mega sport events have shown in recent years. Nevertheless, the there still are democratically...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,768 Views
17 Pages

Arbitrage and liquidity are interrelated. Liquidity facilitates arbitrageurs’ trading on deviations from the law of one price. However, whether arbitrage opportunity leads to an increase or decrease in liquidity depends on the cause of the devi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,527 Views
9 Pages

This study investigated how stock market volatility responded dynamically to unexpected changes during the COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting uncertainty in Thailand. Using a multivariate GARCH-BEKK model, the conditional volatility dynamics, the in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,266 Views
20 Pages

The purpose of this study was to create quantitative models to value ether, ether futures, and ether options based upon the ability of cryptocurrencies to transform existing intermediary-verified payments to non-intermediary-based currency transfers,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
7,024 Views
22 Pages

Despite tons of studies on Islamic banking (IB) behavior, there is a lack of understanding of the Millennial generation’s attitude to and subjective norms surrounding Islamic banking, as well as of their behavioral intention toward Islamic bank...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,329 Views
15 Pages

The study investigates the effects of stock market volatility and cybercrime on cryptocurrency returns in the South African economy. Daily time series data on four different types of cryptocurrencies (Bitcoin, Ethereum, Tether, and BMB) were employed...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,860 Views
22 Pages

In this study, we explored the association of bank-level governance and state-level governance with the likelihood of banks’ financial distress in developing economies. Using a panel data sample of 954 bank-year observations of 106 conventional...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,996 Views
28 Pages

SMEs are perceived as more exposed to the consequences of external shocks. The purpose of our work is to examine whether the ERM sophistication or corporate governance mechanisms could be relevant in resistance to COVID-19 shock in the SMEs. In parti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
10,324 Views
22 Pages

We provide a fresh look at the performance of the stock prices of firms that launched an IPO between 2009 and 2019 and assess the role of their size, age and sector in affecting future performance. We utilize data about 1611 IPOs spanning 11 economic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,283 Views
17 Pages

The Impact of Owner-Managers’ Personality Traits on Their Small Hospitality Enterprise Performance in Saudi Arabia

  • Abu Elnasr E. Sobaih,
  • Amer A. Al-qutaish,
  • Hassane Gharbi and
  • Ahmed E. Abu Elnasr

Governments in many countries have paid close attention to small enterprises because of their social and economic impacts. The role of the owner-manager in advancing the performance of their small business cannot be underestimated. The current study...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,557 Views
19 Pages

Old but Resilient Story: Impact of Decentralization on Social Welfare

  • José Luis Alberto Delgado,
  • Dilek Demirbaş and
  • Ahmet Faruk Aysan

This paper analyzes the fiscal performance of Turkey and Argentina during the period 2000–2021, when both countries faced rapid economic growth with the consequent impact on social welfare. This work explored two different systems: Centralizati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,853 Views
13 Pages

Model of Optimizing Correspondence Risk-Return Marketing for Short-Term Lending

  • Andrii Kaminskyi,
  • Maryna Nehrey,
  • Vitalina Babenko and
  • Grzegorz Zimon

The modern credit market is actively changing under the influence of digitalization processes. Some of the drivers of these changes are financial companies that carry out, among other things, online lending. Online lending is objectively focused on s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
10,337 Views
18 Pages

This paper provides a comprehensive account of financial literacy among Saudi citizens. Responses to items about key aspects of financial literacy—i.e., budgeting, debt, saving, investment, and insurance—were elicited from a large sample...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,199 Views
12 Pages

The adjustment speed of financial leverage indicates the movement of companies towards the optimal capital structure, and clearly shows the financing policies of companies. The importance of optimal leverage is such that the growth and survival of co...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,874 Views
12 Pages

Global trade determines how we live. Technology determines the extent of the market and the ease of trade. The transportation revolution reduced costs and cut travel times. The communication revolution (ICT) improved the quality and quantity of infor...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,886 Views
18 Pages

Analogous to traditional Initial Public Offerings (IPO), Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) represent an emerging channel through which firms can access external funding using the new evolving digital financial market for tokens. However, while ICOs repre...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
7,718 Views
22 Pages

This study’s primary purpose is to investigate corporate governance’s role in investment efficiency and financial information disclosure risk in companies listed on the Tehran Stock Exchange. A multivariate linear regression model based o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,654 Views
21 Pages

The real estate prices in urban China have been soaring sharply since the commercialization reform of the housing market in 1998, but have suffered from downward pressure recently. In addition to the peculiarities of the state-owned land system, newl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
6,026 Views
24 Pages

This paper investigates the effect of female directors on financial fraud, focusing on the role of independent female directors and their demographics, such as experience, financial expertise, and audit committee membership. We find that independent...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,005 Views
14 Pages

Knowledge about the prevalence of doping in recreational sports is still limited and fragmented. The same holds true for explanations of doping prevalence rates among different groups. One of the few theoretical models that exists uses the concept of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
9,397 Views
10 Pages

This article is devoted to the applied aspects of using the concept of the time value of money for the purpose of determining the present value of cash flows in conditions of asymmetric distribution of payments and facts of economic life over time. C...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
6,203 Views
13 Pages

Cryptocurrency markets have experienced large growth in recent years, with an increase in the number and diversity of traded assets. Previous work has addressed the economic properties of Bitcoin with regards to its hedging or diversification propert...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
6,308 Views
14 Pages

This study takes a novel attempt to examine the impact of women’s empowerment in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, which has been prioritized recently by the country’s leadership as a part of the Saudi Vision 2030, on women’s intention t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,869 Views
13 Pages

Through restrictions and people’s behavioral changes with regard to public events, the COVID-19 pandemic has had a massive financial impact on professional team sports clubs. Particularly, many smaller clubs that are more dependent on match-day...

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