Quantitative measures of operational risk: An application to funds management

Accounting and Finance

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1001-1011

  Brown, Stephen J ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Funds management; Operational risk; Quantitative measures

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871249671     PISSN: 08105391     EISSN: 1467629X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-629X.2012.00506.x     Document Type: Article

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