Includes bibliographical references and index.

The performance effects of risk management and corporate governance -- Managers' behavior when governance is weak / Ralf Steinhauser -- Stock repurchase programs and corporate governance : ethical issues and dilemmas / Richard McGowan -- The role of enterprise risk management in determining audit fees : complement or substitute / Kurt Desender and Esteban Lafuente -- Performance based equity grants and corporate governance choices / Yu Flora Kuang and Bo Qin -- Theoretical and experimental approaches to risk management -- Board risk oversight, hedging intensity, and the idiosyncratic risk of U.S. banks / Kathy Fogel, Yingying Shao, and Timothy Yeager -- Tail dependence of major U.S. stocks / Long Kang and Simon Babbs -- Investors' cognitive profile and herding / Beatriz Fernandez, Teresa Garcia-Merino, Rosa Mayoral Valle Santos, and Eleuterio Vallelado -- Sample tangency portfolio, representativeness and ambiguity : impact of the law of small numbers / Ghislain Yanou -- Global dimensions of corporate governance and risk management -- A theoretical framework for voluntary corporate governance / Rodrigo Zeidan -- Lending currency mix of globalized banks : a potential risk for foreign -- Affiliates via internal fund transfer / Yuki Masujima -- Corporate governance of banks / Peter O. Malbert -- Legal and regulatory dimensions of corporate governance and risk management -- Corporate political spending & shareholders' rights : why the U.S. should adopt the British approach / Ciara Torres-Spellicy -- Disclosure 2.0 : leveraging technology to address "complexity" and -- Information failures in the financial crisis / Erik Gerding -- Data integrity preservation and identity theft prevention : operational and strategic imperatives to enhance shareholder and consumer value / Galvin Govern and John Winn -- Credit derivatives and corporate governance : a review of corporate theory / P.M. Vasudev.