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Working Paper
Business complexity and risk management: evidence from operational risk events in U. S. bank holding companies
How does business complexity affect risk management in financial institutions? The commonly used risk measures rely on either balance-sheet or market-based information, both of which may suffer from identification problems when it comes to answering this question. Balance-sheet measures, such as return on assets, capture the risk when it is realized, while empirical identification requires knowledge of the risk when it is actually taken. Market-based measures, such as bond yields, not only ignore the problem that investors are not fully aware of all the risks taken by management due to ...
Speech
Complexity in banking: stock-taking and the way forward: presentation at the Central Bank of Ireland’s Global Financial Linkages Conference
Keynote for Central Bank of Ireland/ Banque de France Conference on Global Financial Linkages.