This book draws on financial, economic, and management theory in its exploration of the theory underlying risk and risk management at both micro- and macroeconomic levels. It has a particular reference to the public financial sector. Chapters investigate the elimination of currency risk in the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), as well as the changes that credit ratings undergo due to the influence of credit spreads. Featuring contributions on important topics such as public safety and the internet, intellectual capital, bank regulatory risk in the EU, the financial distress of public sector entities, and systemic risk in the insurance sector, it also explores innovative and emerging issues in the European tax gap in personal income taxes and VAT carousel fraud in selected European countries. Discussion of the complex nature of risk management in public administration will appeal to public officials, policy-makers, academics and researchers alike.

Professor Konrad Raczkowski is Undersecretary of State in the Ministry of Finance, Poland and a member of the National Development Council of the President of the Republic of Poland. He is also currently Head of the Economic Institute of the University of Social Sciences in Warsaw, Poland, where he is a Professor of Economics and Management, and Chair of the Department of Economic Security Management. Professor Raczkowski specialises in the management of economic systems, public finance and the informal economy. Since 2010 he has served as an expert and reviewer for the Parliamentary Research Bureau of the Chancellery of the Parliament (Poland), various economic organisations, enterprises and international institutions. From 2003 to 2013, he was an employee of the Ministry of Finance in Poland. He has previously worked with the European Commission's European Anti-Fraud Office in Brussels (2006-2010) and the Institute for Security and Development Policy in Stockholm. He is a Swedish government scholar in management (2009) and a member of the British Academy of Management.