Journal of Risk

Aims & Scope

This international peer-reviewed journal publishes a broad range of original research papers which aim to further develop understanding of financial risk management. As the only publication devoted exclusively to theoretical and empirical studies in financial risk management, The Journal of Risk promotes far-reaching research on the latest innovations in this field, with particular focus on the measurement, management and analysis of financial risk. The Journal of Risk is particularly interested in papers on the following topics: Risk management regulations and their implications Risk capital allocation and risk budgeting Efficient evaluation of risk measures under increasingly complex and realistic model assumptions Impact of risk measurement on portfolio allocation Theoretical development of alternative risk measures Hedging (linear and non-linear) under alternative risk measures Financial market model risk Estimation of volatility and unanticipated jumps Capital allocation Systemic risk Risk management issues related to fintech and cryptocurrencies New methodologies for artificial intelligence and machine learning in financial risk management

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Source: OpenAlex · Each year’s green bar = citations earned by that year’s papers, counted to date — so recent years look lower simply because their papers haven’t had time to be cited yet.

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