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Journal of Risk and Financial Management, Volume 18, Issue 2

February 2025 - 64 articles

Cover Story: This study examines how the Big Three passive investors (BlackRock, Vanguard, and State Street) influence firms’ cost of equity. By analyzing their unique ownership structure, the research explores an underexamined aspect of institutional ownership and corporate financing. Using data from 1997 to 2016, the study finds that increased Big Three ownership enhances disclosure practices and reduces information asymmetry, lowering the cost of equity. However, it also reveals a trade-off, as concentrated ownership may introduce liquidity risks. These findings bridge a gap in the literature, offering insights for institutional investors, regulators, and corporate managers on the broader impact of passive ownership on firm valuation and financing strategies. View this paper
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Articles (64)

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,097 Views
24 Pages

The need to manage the risks related to the COVID-19 epidemic in health, economics, finance, and insurance became obvious after its outbreak. As a basis for the respective quantitative methods, this paper models, in a novel manner, the dynamics of an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,996 Views
16 Pages

Firm Policies and Uncertainty About Risk

  • Adam Harper,
  • Yilun Lu and
  • Sumit Tembhurne

This study examines how firm-specific financial policies and external factors influence the volatility of implied volatility (VOV), a measure of uncertainty about future risks. Using a sample of 6023 firms from January 2000 to December 2022, we deriv...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
11,692 Views
18 Pages

This paper evaluates the impact of retail investors’ bullish sentiment in comparison to that of financial institutions on the return of Chinese CSI 300 index stocks over the period of 2015 to 2023. We document several regularities. First, the s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
917 Views
25 Pages

The PCAOB’s 2006 Tax Service Restrictions and Earnings Management

  • Matthew Notbohm,
  • Xiaoli Guo and
  • Adrian Valencia

In 2006, the PCAOB implemented new restrictions on the auditor provision of some tax and contingent fee services provided to issuer audit clients. These restrictions were implemented to reduce auditor conflicts of interest inherent when the auditor p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,834 Views
19 Pages

This study explores the efficacy of advanced machine learning models, including various Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) architectures and traditional time series approaches, for forecasting cotton futures prices. This analysis is motivated by the impor...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4,236 Views
19 Pages

We investigated the relationship between corporate governance mechanisms and bank performance in the Nigerian banking sector. We focused on data from 2012 to 2022 extracted from the balance sheets of deposit money banks in Nigeria. We employed the Ge...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,898 Views
14 Pages

Determinants of Stochastic Distance-to-Default

  • Tarek Eldomiaty,
  • Islam Azzam,
  • Hoda El Kolaly,
  • Ahmed Dabour,
  • Marwa Anwar and
  • Rehab Elshahawy

Efficient management of bankruptcy risk requires treating distant-to-default (DD) stochastically as long as historical stock prices move randomly and, thus, do not guarantee that history may repeat itself. Using long-term data that date back to 1952&...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
6,237 Views
22 Pages

This study investigates the nexus between green financing (GB) and carbon emissions across 29 countries distributed worldwide with full data on green financing measured as the sum of bonds issued for the period 2018–2021. GDP per capita, popula...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,277 Views
22 Pages

Prediction of Green Sukuk Investment Interest Drivers in Nigeria Using Machine Learning Models

  • Mukail Akinde,
  • Olasunkanmi Olapeju,
  • Olusegun Olaiju,
  • Timothy Ogunseye,
  • Adebayo Emmanuel,
  • Sekinat Olagoke-Salami,
  • Foluke Oduwole,
  • Ibironke Olapeju,
  • Doyinsola Ibikunle and
  • Kehinde Aladelusi

This study developed and evaluated machine learning models (MLMs) for predicting the drivers of green sukuk investment interest (GSII) in Nigeria, adopting the planks of hypothesised determinants adapted from variants of the planned behavioural model...

  • Editorial
  • Open Access
1,166 Views
4 Pages

Recently, the Journal of Risk and Financial Management completed a Special Issue that included papers based on invitations from the Editorial Board Members on a variety of areas in applied financial economics and risk management [...]

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