Chapter 1: Introduction -- Part I: Framework of Financial Water Risk -- Chapter 2: Drivers of water risk and their interaction -- Chapter 3: Water risk and climate change -- Chapter 4: Interaction effects of water risk in finance and society -- Chapter 5: Opportunities from water risk -- Part...

Purpose: In most financial institutions, chief risk officers (CROs) and their risk management staff fulfill a role in managing risk exposures, yet their lack of involvement in the governance has been cited as an influential factor that contributed to the financial crisis of 2007-2008. Various...

We consider the importance of legal opportunism as an explanation for observed litigation following a large sample of initial public offerings (IPOs). We characterize legal opportunism as litigation based on the potential to recover losses after negative stock price developments rather than the...