Risk Management and Corporate Governance

Abol Jalilvand · Tassos Malliaris

May 2013 · Routledge

About this ebook

The asymmetry of responsibilities between management and corporate governance both for day-to-day operations and the board’s monthly or quarterly review and evaluation remains an unresolved challenge. Expertise in the area of risk management is a fundamental requirement for effective corporate governance, if not by all, certainly by some board members. This means that along with board committees such as "compensation", "audit", "strategy" and several others, "risk management" committees must be established to monitor the likelihood of certain events that may cause the collapse of the firm.

Risk Management and Corporate Governance allows academics and practitioners to assess the state of international research in risk management and corporate governance. The chapters overlay the areas of risk management and corporate governance on both financial and operating decisions of a firm while treating legal and political environments as externalities to decisions undertaken.

About the author

Abol Jalilvand received his Ph.D. in Finance from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His scholarly work in corporate debt structure, risk management, cost of capital and international capital flows has appeared in top refereed journals. He is Dean of the School of Business Administration and Graduate School of Business at Loyola University Chicago.

A.G. (Tassos) Malliaris, PhD, joined Loyola University Chicago in 1972 and is currently Professor of Economics and Finance and holds the Walter F. Mullady Sr. Chair in Business Administration. He specializes in financial economics and has made significant contributions in the area of futures and options markets.