Purpose: The purpose of this study is to study the evolution of French corporate governance law in light of collibration approach and bring statistical evidence from French Companies Executive Compensation practices. Design/methodology/approach: The study has used mixed methods. In the first...

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...