Asset pricing models

Corporate management behavior

Risk management

Corporate governance

Financial distress and default

Credit risk

International finance

Macro finance

Real options

Institutional investors

Mutual funds

Hedge funds

Market integration.

Hi Td,

A hot topic in the finance and investment sector is how the sustainability performance of a company can be assessed and taken into account when doing risk management and investment decisions.

There is steeply increasing pressure on society to transition towards sustainability, see for example the report by the IPCC that was just published. This transition will entail massive change in all sectors. Change that entails major uncertainty and challenges for companies. Companies that succeed in building capabilities for working with sustainability in a strategic way can benefit from opportunities on increasingly sustainability-driven markets. On the other hand, companies that are too passive in relation to sustainability will face risks such as tougher legislation, bad reputation, inability to attract employees, and decreasing demand from customers. Hence, investors must take the sustainability capabilities of a company into account when assessing the investment risk. However, many questions remain around how such an assessment should be done, how to measure sustainability capabilities, how to find comparable metrics for this that can be measured and reported, etc.

If this line of research is of interest to you, I would be glad to provide you with some more thoughts and reading recommendations.

Hope this is helpful.

Take care.

Jesko

ESG investing with all challenges of measuring ESG, maybe applying AI for it

Effect Interest Rate Volatility on Bank Borrowing to Private and Public Sector in Nigeria

Green Finance and its various aspects

Volatility

One interesting PhD dissertation topics is: "Market completeness and Higher-Order Moment Swaps". Please read my article posted on this site and titled "Tests of the Stochastic Volatility with Jumps Model Driven by Moment Swaps".

You can carry out your research on; " EFFECT OF CREDIT RISK MANAGEMENT ON THE MARKET PERFORMANCE OF DEPOSIT MONEY BANKS (DMBs): THE MODERATING EFFECT OF PANDEMIC. This is a very good topic for a PhD program. Thanks a lot.

It would be fine to try investigating the role of micro-financing in poverty and crime rate reduction and economic sustainability in the sub-Saharan region.

This study addresses risk in nonprofit projects impacting social bonds investments and other funding options. Could help in your research,

Developing a vulnerability-based conceptual model for managing risk in non-profit projects: a multicase study in a European country

Article Developing a vulnerability-based conceptual model for managi...

1. Structured finance

2. The Labor Costs of Financial Distress

Green finance will be better.

In finance, you need to use some data. Therefore, before you choose the topic, you need to check whether relevant data is available. I therefore suggest the opposite order: first check whether you have access to some financial databases, and only afterwards choose the topic.;