rationale behind the bans was that "bear raids", driven by short-sellers, would increase the individual and systemic risk of … specifically target institutions with lower capital levels. Furthermore, institutions' risk-levels and changes in short …

). Our results proved a heavy-tailed pattern of operational risk data consistent with the results documented by other … banks from emerging markets such as Central Europe are exposed to these operational risk events and that successful … estimates of the likely distribution of these risk events can be derived from more mature markets. -- operational risk …