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Microfinance Risk Management

A special issue of Risks (ISSN 2227-9091).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2021) | Viewed by 11453

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Roberto Moro Visconti

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Department of Economics and Business Management, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy
Interests: microfinance and poverty traps; healthcare project finance and m-health; valuation of digital intangibles (IoT, big data, software, and artificial intelligence; blockchains; databases; software; patents and know-how; trademarks, goodwill, etc.)
Prof. Salvador Cruz Rambaud

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Department of Economics and Business, Universidad de Almería, La Cañada de San Urbano, s/n, 04120 Almería, Spain
Interests: investment; financial analysis; portfolio; financial economics; capital markets
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Prof. Dr. Joaquín López Pascual

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Departamento de Economía de la Empresa, Facultad de Ciencias Jurídicas y Sociales, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spain
Interests: banking; microfinance; fintech; neuroeconomics
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The microfinance ecosystem is rapidly changing, and the industry is facing new challenges, ranging from technological discontinuity to demographic pressures and climatic change. This affects risk patterns, even beyond the traditional sustainability-versus-outreach trade-off. Rising risks are increasingly managed by digitalization and innovative technologies, ranging from big data and validating blockchains to artificial intelligence.

Prof. Dr. Roberto Moro Visconti
Prof. Dr. Salvador Rambaud
Prof. Dr. Joaquín López Pascual
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Keywords

  • Microcredit/microloans/microinsurance
  • ESG/millennium development goals
  • Sustainability/profitability
  • Outreach
  • Digital networking platforms
  • Financial ecosystem/fintech
  • Banana skins/bottlenecks
  • Financial/interest rate risk
  • Credit/liquidity/funding risk
  • Fraud/compliance/regulation
  • Capital adequacy
  • Mission drift
  • Technology/big data/artificial intelligence/blockchains

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The Impact of Robotification on the Financial Situation of Microenterprises: Evidence from the Financial Services Sector in Poland
by Maciej Cieślukowski, Przemysław Garsztka and Beata Zyznarska-Dworczak
Risks 2022, 10(2), 38; https://doi.org/10.3390/risks10020038 - 11 Feb 2022
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The automation of manufacturing processes as a result of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, rendered faster under the influence of the COVID-19 pandemic, leads to a question as to whether small enterprises, and in particular microenterprises, will still be financially self-sufficient. The literature on [...] Read more.
The automation of manufacturing processes as a result of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, rendered faster under the influence of the COVID-19 pandemic, leads to a question as to whether small enterprises, and in particular microenterprises, will still be financially self-sufficient. The literature on the subject so far has not provided an answer to this question, and limited access to financial data concerning microenterprises, as well as data on the robotification of labour in these companies, leads to this problem becoming a research niche. Therefore, this paper aims to assess the attractiveness of the operation of microenterprises that provide financial advisory services in the situation of replacing human labour with robots. For that purpose, we performed a simulation of the state of the microenterprise before and after introducing the robotification of services, taking into account the extra tax on robotification. The findings indicate that anticipating the improvement of financial results following the automation of financial services requires taking into account the replaceability of employees in a particular unit, the form of acquiring a robot and a potential increase in the tax burden (with a tax compensating for the lost state income). Full article
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Insolvency Risk and Value Maximization: A Convergence between Financial Management and Risk Management
by Alessandro Gennaro
Risks 2021, 9(6), 105; https://doi.org/10.3390/risks9060105 - 1 Jun 2021
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This conceptual paper focuses on the relationship between insolvency, capital structure, and value creation. The aim is twofold: to define risk-based capital measures able to absorb the effects of financial distress and avoid corporate default; and to verify conditions and limits of use [...] Read more.
This conceptual paper focuses on the relationship between insolvency, capital structure, and value creation. The aim is twofold: to define risk-based capital measures able to absorb the effects of financial distress and avoid corporate default; and to verify conditions and limits of use of these measures in corporate financial policies. The capital measures based on insolvency risk will be defined by recalling the concepts of Cash Flow-at-Risk and Capital-at-Risk. A first check on the usefulness of these risk-based measures and their consistency with the principle of value maximization is carried out through a simulation model. The scenario analysis allows us to examine how financial and risk policies oriented by insolvency avoidance affect the firm value. According to evidence from the simulation model, these measures appear to be useful in lowering the default risk, but they require a continuous assessment of their impact on the firm value. Full article
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