Filene Research Institute

Through independent research and innovation, the Filene Research Institute explores issues vital to the future of credit unions and consumer finance.

Risk Management

  1. Costs and Consolidations

    • James Wilcox, PhD, Kruttschnitt Family Professor of Financial Institutions, Haas School of Business University of California, Berkeley
    • Jun 10, 2008 2 Comments
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    In Credit Union Costs and ConslidationsFilene Fellow James Wilcox answers the question “Is there significant empirical evidence that credit unions can reduce their costs by operating at a larger scale?”

    categories » Collaboration, Risk Management, Small Credit Unions

  2. Financially High-Performing Credit Unions

    • Dr. Harold Sollenberger, Professor of Accounting and Information Systems, The Eli Broad Graduate School of Management, Michigan State University
    • Feb 27, 2008 2 Comments
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    Credit unions have many yardsticks against which to measure success, and one standard industry benchmark is financial performance against “high-performing” credit unions.

    The challenge is that what exactly “high-performing” means can vary amid the wide variety of sizes and types of credit unions in the marketplace. How can a credit union measure success when industry averages simply aren’t useful as comparison?

    categories » Performance Measures, Risk Management

  3. Cooperative Comebacks: Resilience in the Face of the Hurricane Katrina Catastrophe

    • Mark Klinedinst, PhD, Professor of Economics, University of Southern Mississippi
    • Dec 6, 2007 No Comments
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    Our new study, Cooperative Comebacks: Resilience in the Face of the Hurricane Katrina Catastrophe, examines how credit unions fared in the wake of the disaster. Author Mark Klinedinst, an economics professor at the University of Southern Mississippi, compares the experience of credit unions and banks in southern Mississippi and New Orleans at the aggregate and case study levels. Klinedinst argues that analyzing credit unions under this kind of duress may be useful in identifying cooperative strengths and weaknesses that are not apparent under normal circumstances.

    categories » Human Resource Issues, Management, Risk Management

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