Financial Innovation and Risk: Evidence from Operational Losses at U.S. Banking Organizations

This study documents that financial innovation is associated with adverse operational risk externalities. Using supervisory data on operational losses from large U.S. bank holding companies (BHCs), we show that organizations with more financial patent innovation suffer higher operational losses per dollar of assets and more severe tail risk events.

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