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Measuring operational risk in financial institutions

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  • S�verine Plunus
  • Georges Hübner
  • Jean-Philippe Peters

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The scarcity of internal loss databases tends to hinder the use of the advanced approaches for operational risk measurement (Advanced Measurement Approaches (AMA)) in financial institutions. As there is a greater variety in credit risk modelling, this article explores the applicability of a modified version of CreditRisk+ to operational loss data. Our adapted model, OpRisk+, works out very satisfying Values-at-Risk (VaR) at 95% level as compared with estimates drawn from sophisticated AMA models. OpRisk+ proves to be especially worthy in the case of small samples, where more complex methods cannot be applied. OpRisk+ could therefore be used to fit the body of the distribution of operational losses up to the 95%-percentile, while Extreme Value Theory (EVT), external databases or scenario analysis should be used beyond this quantile.

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  • S�verine Plunus & Georges Hübner & Jean-Philippe Peters, 2012. "Measuring operational risk in financial institutions," Applied Financial Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 22(18), pages 1553-1569, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:apfiec:v:22:y:2012:i:18:p:1553-1569
    DOI: 10.1080/09603107.2012.667546
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