New issue of the Risk Governance and Control: Financial Markets & Institutions journal

The editorial team of Virtus Interpress is honoured to release the first issue of the journal Risk Governance and Control: Financial Markets & Institutions (volume 15, issue 1) in 2025. This international issue is represented by studies from Greece, Germany, the USA, the UAE, the Philippines, Jordan, Vietnam, Thailand, Albania and other countries of the world.

The articles published in this new issue are devoted to a variety of relevant issues, which include, among others, corporate governance, foreign direct investments, managerial accounting, financial reporting, risk perception, financial indexes, audit quality, debt ratio, interest coverage ratio, growth rate, company size, financial crisis, profitability, banking, bank distress, financial stability, bank resilience, circular economy, economic risks, technological risks, social risks, environmental risks, economic growth, economic recession, gross domestic product, competitive strategies, environmental performance, housing price, price prediction, digital assets, artificial intelligence, non-fungible tokens, intangible assets, etc.

The full issue of the journal is available at the following link .

Eleni Z. Letsou, Charalampos L. Agiropoulos, Stavros G. Efthimiou, and Pantelis I. Pantelidis examine how country-specific characteristics such as real income, exchange rates, economic openness, and European monetary integration influence the outward FDI from EU countries.

Abdul Razzak Alshehadeh, Ghaleb Elrefae, Qeethara Kadhim Al-Shayea, Mohammed Hassan Makhlouf, and Shorouq Fathi Kamel Eletter investigate the impact of accounting measurement of environmental performance cost elements on the quality of financial reporting information for industrial companies listed on the Amman Stock Exchange.

Long Phi Tran, Hoang Duc Le, Ta Thu Phuong, and Dung Chi Nguyen use both traditional and advanced machine learning approaches to address the issue of housing price prediction.

Supin Chaisiripaibool, Tanpat Kraiwanit, Aishath Rafiyya, Teeradej Snongtaweeporn, and Nithima Yuenyong examine key determinants of digital asset adoption in Thailand, integrating the technology acceptance model and diffusion of innovation theory.

Benjamin Dennhardt and Ling Lang review the existing literature on modelling strategies for hedging wind power production risks and provide a comprehensive overview of arbitrage models incorporating seasonal elements and stochastic jump risks, as well as equilibrium pricing models.

Marigona Geci and Adriatik Hoxha analyze the relationship between the growth rate of output and the growth rate of aggregate expenditure on research and development in the EU and its member states.

Christos Konstantinidis, Maria Tsiouni, Paschalia Plioska, and Ioanna Antoniadou aim at the competitiveness estimation of olive oil manufacturing firms and as an extension the choice of the proper development strategies from these firms.

Mfon Akpan investigates the correlation between the number of views and non-fungible tokens valuation, explicitly focusing on Sandbox land assets.

Nancy Joy M. Mangansat evaluates the climate change awareness, attitudes, impact risks, adaptation strategies, and mitigation responses of selected households in flood-prone areas of the Philippines.

Emad Nayef Saleem AlZu’bi, Ali Al-Thuneibat, Omar Mowafi, and Melina Al-Hasan analyse the impact of audit quality on the debt and interest coverage ratios of non-financial companies in Jordan, and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on this relationship.

Yasameen Tareq Mohammed Al-Khayyat, Batool Ismael Hasan Al-Husseini, Muna Jabbar Mohammed, and Hussein Kadhim Sharaf use spatial econometric methods to examine the impact of the global financial crisis on banks’ profitability across regions.

Brunilda Duraj, Igli Tola, Patris Poshnjari, and Rezarta Perri try to provide an understanding of the prevailing risk landscape and to measure the probability of default of banks in Albania based on various financial metrics.

Klarida Prendi and Arif Murrja explore the complexities of implementing circular economy practices across diverse industries, focusing on the political, economic, social, technological, and environmental risks involved.

We hope that researchers will find the articles in this issue particularly interesting and useful for their research activities.