In the last ten years, operational risk has received a considerable attention from banking supervisors, practitioners and researchers alike. While the majority of studies have been devoted to derive the appropriate formulas for quantifying this risk (i.e. under pillar I of Basel II), less has...

We examine, in this paper, whether or not subprime mortgage crisis-related write-downs are mainly due to banks involvement in credit risk transfer market (CRT). Using data from 288 European banks over the period 2004-2007, we find that, for different types of CRT involvement, different patterns...