This paper investigates the factors affecting bank operational risk and bank equity risk for European banks during 1996 to 2005. Pooled-OLS and panel data analysis is applied to 84 financial institutions across 15 European countries using credit risk, interest rate risk, total equity, systematic risk and idiosyncratic risk. Off-balance sheet activities are positively correlated with all the ris...

Article history: Received 18 September 2014 Received in revised form 24 September 2014 Accepted 15 October 2014 Available online 20 October 2014 This paper investigates product-specific scale economies of banks with respect to off-balance sheet operations. The cost benefits from the non-separability of outputs available to banks that imply the role of OBS activities on bank scale economies are ...

Despite core banking, banks also engage in off-balance-sheet (OBS) market activities. In many developed banking industries, OBS activities have grown to be significant during the last two decades. This paper provides rather scarce evidence on competitiveness among for and its impact degree of sector competition Sri Lanka. Panzar-Ross H statistic approach employing this study estimate bank used ...

Whether credit market participants process disclosure and recognition of pension information differently has not been fully explored. To fill this gap, study investigates whether the change in a accounting standard related to rule influences firms’ risk Japan. Statement No. 26, Accounting Standard for Retirement Benefits, stipulates that firms recognize previously disclosed on balance sheet. Em...