Reputational risk is now considered the single greatest threat to businesses today. Most companies, however, are still not managing this risk appropriately. This paper argues that following the recommendations of the Turnbull Report into boardroom responsibility for risk management and...

This paper summarises the findings arising from a series of extended qualitative interviews with 14 CEOs and chairmen from leading UK corporations and international organisations. The purpose of the interviews was to try to establish the value that CEOs attach to public relations, and to get a...

We show that both parametric distribution functions appearing in extreme value theory have log-concave densities if the extreme value index [gamma][set membership, variant][-1,0] and that all distribution functions F with log-concave density belong to the max-domain of attraction of the...

In this paper we present the weighted least squares estimator for the extreme value index, and prove its consistency and asymptotic normality.