Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to illustrate how risk capital can be calculated and allocated in a multi-year context. This is an important issue, since strategic management and decision making within insurance companies require a multi-year time horizon (instead of a one-year time...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the uncertainty of acquiring the lowest possible airfare when contemplating the purchase of a ticket. A real option model is applied to value insurance contracts that could be offered to passengers to cope with price risk. Furthermore, the...

A new family of distortion risk measures -GlueVaR- is proposed in Belles- Sampera et al. (2013) to procure a risk assessment lying between those provided by common quantile-based risk measures. GlueVaR risk measures may be expressed as a combination of these standard risk measures. We show here...

The current economic and financial crisis appeared without the anticipation of audit and control organizations, without objecting its manifestation or denouncing the practices that triggered it, that's why the limits and the potential were highlighted. To maximize the internal audit function, to...

"In building the bridge to restore financial order and efficiency, my primary interest is to do the minimum necessary to get the job done. And no more. In so doing, my hope is that we restore the long-term faith of the millions of risk takers who make our economy so mighty." ; Remarks before a...