Ecological, Societal, and Technological Risks and the Financial Sector

Thomas Walker is Professor of Finance at Concordia University, Canada, and previously studied at Washington State University, USA. Prior to academia, he worked for several years in the German consulting and industrial sector at Mercedes Benz, Utility Consultants International, Lahmeyer International, Telenet, and KPMG Peat Marwick.

1. Emerging Risks: An Overview; Thomas Walker, Dieter Gramlich, Kalima Vico, and Adele Dumont-Bergeron.- Part I. Ecological Risks.- 2. Climate Change: Macroeconomic Impact and Implications for Monetary Policy; Sandra Batten, Rhiannon Sowerbutts, and Misa Tanaka.- 3. Global Warming and Extreme Weather Investment Risks; Quintin Rayer, Peter Pfleiderer, Karsten Haustein.- 4. Mapping Out When and Where Climate Risk Becomes a Credit Risk; James Leaton.- 5. Designing Insurance against Extreme Weather Risk: The Case of HuRLOs; Martin Boyer, Michèle Breton, Pascal Francois.- 6. The Evolving Risk Management Opportunity and Thinking Sustainability First; Stephen Kibsey, Stéfanie Kibsey, Amr Addas, Cary Krosinsky.- Part II. Societal Risks.- 7. Terrorism and Trading: Differential Equity and Bond Market Responses during Violent Elections; Tashfeen Hussein and Allan Dwyer.- 8. The Effect of Corporate Tax Avoidance on Society; Gio Wiederhold .- 9. Planning for the Carbon Bubble; Carla Santos Skandier.- 10. Economic Risks from Policy Pressures in Montreal's Real Estate Market; Carmela Cucuzzella and Jordan Owen.- 11. Climate Change and Reputation in the Financial Services Sector; Robert Bopp.- 12. Financial Risk Management in the Anthropocene Age; Bradly Condon and Tapen Sinha.- Part III. Technological Risks.- 13. An Incentives-based Mechanism for Corporate Cyber Governance Enforcement and Regulation; Shaen Corbet and Constantin Gurdgiev.- 14. FinTech for Consumers and Retail Investors: Opportunities and Risks of Digital Payment and Investment Services; Matthias Horn, Andreas Oehler, Stefan Wendt.- 15. Empirical Modelling of Man-made Disaster Scenarios; Melanie Windirsch.- 16. Changing Dynamics of Financial Risk related to Investments in Low Carbon Technologies; Mohd Hafdzuan Bin Adzmi, Huiying Cai, Masachika Suzuki.- 17. A New Era in the Risk Management of Financial Firms; Sureyya Burcu Avci.- 18. Emerging Risks: Concluding Remarks; Dieter Gramlich and Thomas Walker.