Journal of Financial Crime: Volume 17 Issue 2

State control and the weak stock market in China

Wei Cai

The paper aims to explore how the undue state control leads to the weak stock market in China. It analyzes how the undue state control is exerted in some key areas in the Chinese…

Investigating incidents of fraud in small economies: the case for Cyprus

Maria Krambia‐Kapardis, Anastasios Zopiatis

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the extent and types of fraud victimization in small economies or specific industries in such economies. In addition, the paper…

Theories of financial crime

Petter Gottschalk

The purpose of this paper is to understand what, how, and why financial crime, to stimulate know‐what, know‐how, and know‐why, there is a need for theory development.

Brokers and the control of postcontractual opportunism in the Nigerian insurance market

Tajudeen Olalekan Yusuf

The purpose of this paper is to examine how insurance brokers control opportunism at the postcontractual stage of insurance contract in the Nigerian insurance market. Such…

Corruption and ethical relativism: what is at stake?

Michel Dion

The purpose of this paper is to see to what extent ethical relativism could be adopted as justification for corrupt practices.

Combating white‐collar crime in Canada: serving victim needs and market integrity

Michael Kempa

This paper has two integrated purposes: it provides a report on a symposium hosted by the Bank of Canada and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in December 2008 dealing with key…

Investment risk management in Tehran Stock Exchange (TSE) using technique of Monte Carlo Simulation (MCS)

Darush Farid, Alireza Rajabipoor Meybodi, Seyed Heydar Mirfakhraddiny

The purpose of this paper is to try to show how to manage risk by the use of “value at risk (VaR) concept” with Monte Carlo Simulation (MCS) technique in stock exchanges.

Terrorist financing 2010

William Tupman