The Journal of Risk and Financial Management (JRFM) was inaugurated in 2008 and has successfully continued publishing, with Volume 13 in 2020. Since the journal was established, JRFM has published in excess of 580 topical and interesting theoretical and empirical papers in financial economics,...

With the availability of new and more comprehensive financial market data, making headlines of massive public interest due to recent periods of extreme volatility and crashes, the field of computational finance is evolving ever faster thanks to significant advances made theoretically, and to the...

The COVID-19 pandemic struck the global economy after a decade that featured a broad-based slowdown in productivity growth. Global Productivity: Trends, Drivers, and Policies presents the first comprehensive analysis of the evolution and drivers of productivity growth, examines the effects of...

Japanese family businesses are among the oldest in the world and many of them prove a history record of 200 years and more. Research on several case studies of century old firms ('shinise') in Japan reveal three factors as secrets of their longevity: (1) the Japanese family system ('ie') favours...