Purpose: This paper aims to analyze the effects of internal and external governance mechanisms on the performance and risk taking of banks from the Euro zone before and after the 2008 financial crisis. Design/methodology/approach: To avoid macroeconomic problems and shocks and because of data...

In this paper, we analyse the impact of capital regulation on performance and the risk-taking of 30 European banks. We used a technique of panel data over the period 2004-2009. Results show that capital regulation measured by the ratio capital has a negative and statistically significant...