The proposed of this paper is to determine the informative content of the cash flows related to the earnings of the process of explaining the firm's risk. The risk proxies used are Mark-to-Book, Market Beta, financial leverage and insolvency risk. The models are solved by the ordinary least...

Risk-return association is one of the major concerns for economics and business disciplines. While the standard economics and finance theory assume that the sign of the relationship should be positive (individuals are assumed to be risk adverse), since Bowman (1980) many researchers have found...

The paper addresses a basic model of moral hazard (risk) (Gibbons, 2010, Gibbons, 2005) and suggests some of its modifications. In the basic model of moral risk, questions are put and examined that have not been considered in the previous researches. In particular, it is proved that the level of...

Banks' fundamental concept relies on public trust. Since banks are also called the fiduciary financial institutions, public trust plays as an important role in the banking industry. This is mainly due to the fact that banks do not actually manage their own money. Instead, banks manage public...

Drawing on theories of behavioral decision making and situational strength, we developed and tested a multilevel model that explains how the performance outcomes of personal initiative tendency depend on the extent of alignment between organizational control mechanisms and proactive...