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Deposit insurance is a put option that encourages excessive risk taking by banks. Excess litigation against a bank, a … of internal control. We analyze five different measures of bank financial performance and a unique hand-collected data … set on bank legal expense. Our results are consistent with the hypothesis that high legal expense predicts weak future …
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Operational risk is fundamentally different from all other risks taken on by a bank. It is embedded in every activity …. First, address model fragility directly through regulatory anchoring of key model parameters, yet allow each bank to scale …
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It is generally considered that the GFC was triggered, at least in part, by failures in markets trading in complex securities based upon so-called 'subprime' mortgages. While subprime mortgages carry greater credit risk than 'prime' mortgages, the processes used to securitize these mortgages...
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Korean business groups, chaebol, reduced operational risk in the aftermath of the 1997 Asian financial crisis by reducing (increasing) investment in risky (safe) member firms. Risk reduction was accompanied by capital reallocation from risky member firms to safe member firms through equity...
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