Call for papers

Article Type: Call for papers From: International Journal of Accounting and Information Management, Volume 22, Issue 1

Special issue on measuring risk and its applications

Guest Editor: Joseph McCarthy, DBA, Bryant University, USA

The Review of Accounting and Finance (RAF) invites submissions for a special issue on measuring risk and its applications for accounting and finance. Advances in both theory and computing power have enabled enhanced study of both traditional and non-traditional measures of risk, as well as the applications thereof. This special issue is specifically designed to encourage innovative applications for accounting and finance. The papers may address any substantive issues in accounting and finance including, but not limited to, the following:

Traditional measures of risk:

• Beta

• Standard deviation

• Spreads

Non-traditional measures of risk:

• Alpha (fat-tail distributions)

• Wavelets (risk variation by timescale)

Applications:

• VaR

• Asset Pricing

• Portfolio Management

• CDS

Submissions

All submissions should follow the Review of Accounting and Finance manuscript submission guidelines:

http://http://emeraldinsight.com/products/journals/author_guidelines.htm?id=raf

and should not be under consideration by another journal. The original manuscript should be submitted using ScholarOne Manuscripts:

http://http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/raf

For further information, contact:

Guest Editor

Joseph McCarthy

E-mail: mccarthy@bryant.edu

Deadline: All submissions must be completed by 1 October 2014

Expected date of publication: February 2015