reinforcing effects? The authors relate bank efficiency to shortfalls from a stochastic risk/return frontier. They analyze how … Turkish banks. The 2000 financial crisis was a wake-up call for bank efficiency and corporate governance. As a result, better … environments are more stable and bank products are more complex …

dependency between bank leverage and risk. Using a large international sample of banks this paper estimates the short and long … run effects of corporate income taxes (CIT) on bank capital structure and portfolio risk accounting for their simultaneous … in bank leverage and a 2-7 percentage point reduction in the average risk-weight of assets. While the estimated overall …

capitalization ratios of small US bank holding companies (BHCs) are substantially lower than the reported ratios. Empirical evidence … deductions for investments in minority-owned affiliates. These findings have important implications for the regulation of bank …

Shocks to bank lending, risk-taking and securitization activities that are orthogonal to real economy and monetary … type of shock. Expansionary securitization shocks lead to a permanent rise in real GDP and a fall in inflation. Bank … using a model of bank risk-taking and securitization …