Recent accounting changes, for the first time, permit the use of fair value in the primary financial statements for held-to-maturity (HTM) bank loans. While the use of fair value has historically attracted significant discussion and debate, there is little information in the public domain on how...

We measure reputational losses by examining a firm's stock price reaction to the announcement of a major operational loss event. If the firm's market value declines by more than the announced loss amount, this is interpreted as a reputational loss. We find that market values fall one-for-one...

Operational risk is currently receiving significant media attention, as financial scandals have appeared regularly and multiple events have exceeded one billion dollars in total impact. Regulators have also been devoting attention to this risk, and are finalizing proposals that would require...

Quantification of operational risk has received increased attention with the inclusion of an explicit capital charge for operational risk under the new Basle proposal. The proposal provides significant flexibility for banks to use internal models to estimate their operational risk, and the...

A significant competition for order flow in options markets occurred in August 1999. Before the competition, the majority of option volume arose from exclusive listings. By the end of September 1999, entry by existing option exchanges had shifted the majority of option volume to multiple-listing...

Quantification of operational risk has received increased attention with the inclusion of an explicit capital charge for operational risk under the new Basle proposal. The proposal provides significant flexibility for banks to use internal models to estimate their operational risk, and the...

Management and quantification of operational risk has been impeded by the lack of internal or external data on operational losses. We consider newly available data collected from public information sources, and show how such data can be used to quantify operational risk for large internationally...

In August 1999, U.S. exchanges began to compete directly for order flow in many options that had been exclusively listed on another exchange, shifting 37 percent of option volume to multiple-listing status by the end of September. Effective and quoted bid-ask spreads decrease significantly after...