credit risk is defined as a situation in which the liability itself and its interests are not paid back based on the terms determined in contract. in fact, it is considered as the most important risk each bank has to encounter, among the ones present in banking operations, which is actually because of bank's later life being dependent on it. therefore, carefully taken into account, the fac...

Efficient consumer response (ECR) is a U.S. supply chain management strategy which attempts to address the inefficiencies which have led to excessive inventory and unnecessary costs at all levels within the grocery industry supply chain. This paper discusses the traditional grocery store format, the supermarket, and the ways in which inefficient business practices developed in the U.S. grocery ...

Regulators in Australia have gotten the message. Rather than relying solely on the traditional approach to attorney regulation that relies heavily on complaints-driven systems of prosecuting alleged misconduct after it occurs, they have instituted a regulatory regime to help lawyers develop an “ethical infrastructure” enabling their practices to address the type of conduct that often leads to c...

There is much concern about the extent to which risk assessment tools designed to predict recidivism are equally valid for both Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal offenders. The current study compared Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal male sex offenders on items and total scores of the original and revised Static-99 and Static-2002 scales. The study included five independent Canadian samples with Static...

In the offshore renewable energy industry, it is extremely important to reduce the likelihood as well as the magnitude of potential risk events during system’s actual operation. Operational risks (either risk of system failures or environmental risks) may cause catastrophic damages to personnel or infrastructure and result in substantial costs in terms of lost production and emergency maintenan...

systemic risk is the risk of collapse in the financial system. due to the financial crisis that hit the world economy in 2008, the study of systemic risk in the banking sector became more attractive for researchers. in this research we study systemic risk in the iranian banking sector by using a famous systemic risk measure, the ∆covar. to compute the measure, we employ dynamic conditional corr...