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Why Does Fast Loan Growth Predict Poor Performance for Banks?
Fahlenbrach, Rüdiger - 2016
From 1973 to 2014, the common stock of U.S. banks with loan growth in the top quartile of banks over a three-year period significantly underperforms the common stock of banks with loan growth in the bottom quartile over the next three years. The benchmark-adjusted cumulative difference in...
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Incentive Pay and Bank Risk-Taking : Evidence from Austrian, German, and Swiss Banks
Efing, Matthias - 2014
We use payroll data on 1.2 million bank employee years in the Austrian, German, and Swiss banking sector to identify … document an economically significant correlation of incentive pay with both the level and volatility of bank trading income … share in the capital markets divisions with the strength of incentive pay in unrelated bank divisions like retail banking …
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