Corporate Disclosures of Mid-Caps and Market Risk Indicators

This study examines the effect of market risk on the financial performance of 31 non-financial companies listed on the Casablanca Stock Exchange (CSE) over the period 2000-2016. We utilize three alternative variables to assess financial performance, namely return on assets, return on equity and profit margin. Next, we use the degree of financial leverage, the book-to-market ratio, and the gearing ratio as market risk variables. Besides, we employ the pooled OLS model, the fixed effects model, the random-effects model, the difference GMM and the system GMM models. The results show that market risk indicators have a negative and significant influence on the companies' financial performance. The elasticities are greater following the book-to-market ratio compared to the degree of financial leverage and the gearing ratio, respectively. In most cases, the firm size, the tangibility ratio, and the cash holdings ratio have a positive effect on financial performance, whereas the firms' age, the debt-to-income ratio, stock turnover, and leverage hurt the performance of these non-financial companies. Therefore, decision-makers and managers should mitigate market risk through appropriate strategies of risk management, such as derivatives and insurance techniques.

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Do the Emerging Market Risk Indicators Work?

Cracking the Emerging Markets Enigma ◽

10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199336623.003.0010 ◽

2015 ◽

pp. 173-194

Author(s):

G. Andrew Karolyi

Keyword(s):

Emerging Market ◽

Market Risk ◽

Risk Indicators

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Risk indicators of edentulism, partial tooth loss and prosthetic status among black and white middle-aged and older adults

Community Dentistry And Oral Epidemiology ◽

10.1034/j.1600-0528.2001.290502.x ◽

2001 ◽

Vol 29 (5) ◽

pp. 329-340 ◽

Cited By ~ 52

Author(s):

Teresa A. Dolan ◽

Gregg H. Gilbert ◽

R. Paul Duncan ◽

Ulrich Foerster

Keyword(s):

Older Adults ◽

Tooth Loss ◽

Risk Indicators ◽

Middle Aged ◽

Black And White ◽

Prosthetic Status

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The management of risk in a dryland environment

Proceedings of the New Zealand Grassland Association ◽

10.33584/jnzg.2011.73.2835 ◽

2011 ◽

pp. 13-21

Author(s):

D.I. Gray ◽

J.I. Reid ◽

D.J. Horne

Keyword(s):

Risk Management ◽

Service Providers ◽

Management Strategies ◽

Subterranean Clover ◽

Farming Systems ◽

Market Risk ◽

Farm Size ◽

Forage Crops ◽

Risk Management Strategies ◽

Upside Risk

A group of 24 Hawke's Bay hill country farmers are working with service providers to improve the resilience of their farming systems. An important step in the process was to undertake an inventory of their risk management strategies. Farmers were interviewed about their farming systems and risk management strategies and the data was analysed using descriptive statistics. There was considerable variation in the strategies adopted by the farmers to cope with a dryland environment. Importantly, these strategies had to cope with three types of drought and also upside risk (better than expected conditions), and so flexibility was critical. Infra-structure was important in managing a dryland environment. Farmers chose between increased scale (increasing farm size) and geographic dispersion (owning a second property in another location) through to intensification (investing in subdivision, drainage, capital fertiliser, new pasture species). The study identified that there may be scope for further investment in infra-structural elements such as drainage, deeper rooting alternative pasture species and water harvesting, along with improved management of subterranean clover to improve flexibility. Many of the farmers used forage crops and idling capacity (reduced stocking rate) to improve flexibility; others argued that maintaining pasture quality and managing upside risk was a better strategy in a dryland environment. Supplementary feed was an important strategy for some farmers, but its use was limited by contour and machinery constraints. A surprisingly large proportion of farmers run breeding cows, a policy that is much less flexible than trading stock. However, several farmers had improved their flexibility by running a high proportion of trading cattle and buffer mobs of ewe hoggets and trade lambs. To manage market risk, the majority of farmers are selling a large proportion of their lambs prime. Similarly, cattle are either sold prime or store onto the grass market when prices are at a premium. However, market risk associated with the purchase of supplements and grazing was poorly managed.

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Management of Intraoperative Fluid Balance and Blood Conservation Techniques in Adult Cardiac Surgery

The Heart Surgery Forum ◽

10.1532/hsf98.2010111 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 14 (1) ◽

pp. 28 ◽

Cited By ~ 10

Author(s):

George Vretzakis ◽

Athina Kleitsaki ◽

Diamanto Aretha ◽

Menelaos Karanikolas

Keyword(s):

Cardiac Surgery ◽

Blood Cell ◽

Fluid Balance ◽

Blood Product ◽

Blood Donation ◽

Autologous Blood ◽

Small Body ◽

Risk Indicators ◽

Blood Transfusions ◽

Blood Conservation

Blood transfusions are associated with adverse physiologic effects and increased cost, and therefore reduction of blood product use during surgery is a desirable goal for all patients. Cardiac surgery is a major consumer of donor blood products, especially when cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) is used, because hematocrit drops precipitously during CPB due to blood loss and blood cell dilution. Advanced age, low preoperative red blood cell volume (preoperative anemia or small body size), preoperative antiplatelet or antithrombotic drugs, complex or re-operative procedures or emergency operations, and patient comorbidities were identified as important transfusion risk indicators in a report recently published by the Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists. This report also identified several pre- and intraoperative interventions that may help reduce blood transfusions, including off-pump procedures, preoperative autologous blood donation, normovolemic hemodilution, and routine cell saver use.A multimodal approach to blood conservation, with highrisk patients receiving all available interventions, may help preserve vital organ perfusion and reduce blood product utilization. In addition, because positive intravenous fluid balance is a significant factor affecting hemodilution during cardiac surgery, especially when CPB is used, strategies aimed at limiting intraoperative fluid balance positiveness may also lead to reduced blood product utilization.This review discusses currently available techniques that can be used intraoperatively in an attempt to avoid or minimize fluid balance positiveness, to preserve the patient's own red blood cells, and to decrease blood product utilization during cardiac surgery.

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Real estate market risk modelling

10.15396/eres2015_211 ◽

2015 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Simon Stevenson ◽

Mutale Katyoka

Keyword(s):

Real Estate ◽

Market Risk ◽

Real Estate Market ◽

Risk Modelling

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CONCEPTUALISING RISK CULTURE ON ERM IMPLEMENTATION IN CONSTRUCTION COMPANIES

Built Environment Journal ◽

10.24191/bej.v17i1.5988 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 17 (1) ◽

pp. 59

Author(s):

Ching Ching Wong

Keyword(s):

Risk Management ◽

Risk Identification ◽

The Body ◽

Risk Indicators ◽

Construction Companies ◽

Risk Appetite ◽

Risk Culture ◽

Risk Treatment ◽

Managing Risk ◽

The Relationship

Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) is an effective technique in managing risk within an organization strategically and holistically. Risk culture relates to the general awareness, attitudes and behaviours towards risk management in an organisation. This paper presents a conceptual model that shows the relationship between risk culture and ERM implementation. The dependent variable is ERM implementation, which is measured by the four processes namely risk identification and risk assessment; risk treatment; monitor and consult; communicate and consult. The independent variables under risk culture are risk policy and risk appetite; key risk indicators; accountability; incentives; risk language and internal relationships. This study aims to empirically test the relationship between risk culture and ERM implementation among Malaysian construction public listed companies. Risk culture is expected to have direct effects and significantly influence ERM. This study contributes to enhance the body of knowledge in ERM especially in understanding significant of risk culture that influence its’ implementation from Malaysian perspective.

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