New Challenges and Global Outlooks in Financial Risk Management

Financial risk management has become increasingly important in the last years and a profound understanding of this subject is vital for managers, practitioners, investors and students of finance and related areas. This book provides the major trends regarding research on financial risk management, as well as the practices of different countries and economies. It is a compilation of the state of the art, new trends, and theoretical and empirical studies on the domain of enterprise risk. It is a critical reference source that 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.

This book focuses on international risk management practices, and its relationship to firms' performance, and other dimensions of companies. It will present research on topics such as several types of financial risk, management of risk, hedging strategies, corporate governance and risk management, and behavioral finance and risk, and more. It is ideal for regulatory authorities, accountants, managers, academics, students, and researchers seeking coverage on the theoretical, empirical, and experimental studies that relate to the different themes in these global subjects.