Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to show how the influence of the diffusion speed of a financial innovation (FI) increases the operational risk (OR) in any business line with different rate.Design/methodology/approach - A stochastic model is considered presenting the influence of diffusion...

We herein examine the progress of financial innovations over the past 30 years, beginning with how they have influenced the financial system. We adopt a framework of classification that provides an overview of previous findings to examine the continuity of financial innovations. We find that the...

We examine the performance of the expected convexity path of a stock market index using a novel measure of a tangent linear approach. The expected path is expressed as a linear combination that shows whether the transmission from the present value t to the future one (t k)-th is a convex or a...

The paper examines the evolution of trade openness implications in the Mediterranean basin countries with respect to the European Union's trade initiatives, using a series of unconditional and conditional convergence tests. Accounting the endogeneity and instrumenting the spatial geography,...

The paper examines the implications arising from the effect of two cognitive biases, representativeness and conservatism, for securities price behaviour on the London Stock Exchange. In a single- and multi-factor framework of abnormal returns, the aspects of trend and consistency in the...

By adopting a dynamic ARDL transformation, we investigate the cointegrating relationship of the government bond debt yields, driven by the common money market factors in Economic Monetary Union. The findings indicate that the introduction of the common currency has not a uniform effect on the...

We investigate the contagion appetite generated by the current debt crisis in Greece by focusing on six European Monetary Union bond markets, namely the Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Spain, Portugal and France. We use a framework that contains two procedures, a spillover regime/switching model...