Risk Management Failures: What are They and When do They Happen?

Fisher College of Business Working Paper No. 2008-03-017

Charles A. Dice Center Working Paper No. 2008-18

25 Pages Posted: 6 Oct 2008

See all articles by René M. Stulz

René M. Stulz

Ohio State University (OSU) - Department of Finance; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER); European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI)

Date Written: October 2008

Abstract

A large loss is not evidence of a risk management failure because a large loss can happen even if risk management is flawless. I provide a typology of risk management failures and show how various types of risk management failures occur. Because of the limitations of past data in assessing the probability and the implications of a financial crisis, I conclude that financial institutions should use scenarios for credible financial crisis threats even if they perceive the probability of such events to be extremely small.

JEL Classification: G20, G32

Suggested Citation

Stulz, Rene M., Risk Management Failures: What are They and When do They Happen? (October 2008). Fisher College of Business Working Paper No. 2008-03-017, Charles A. Dice Center Working Paper No. 2008-18, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1278073 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1278073

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