The aim of this study is to examine the effects of bank-specific, regulatory and macroeconomic determinants on bank risk, profitability and solvency in the Armenian banking sector. To account for these, we apply a GMM technique to a panel of 22 Armenian banks covering the 2003–2014 period. The...

Following the three-pillar structure of the Basel II/III framework, the article categorises and surveys 279 academic papers on operational risk in financial institutions, covering the period from 1998 to 2014. In doing so, different lines of both theoretical and empirical directions for research...

Following the three-pillar structure of the Basel II/III framework, the article categorises and surveys 279 academic papers on operational risk in financial institutions, covering the period from 1998 to 2014. In doing so, different lines of both theoretical and empirical directions for research...

We investigate information transfer effects of operational loss announcements to the announcing firm's blockholder. Based on an event study, we find that the firm-blockholder link tends to be weak for U.S. financial sector blockholders, with significant negative spillover effects occurring...