Foos, Daniel; Norden, Lars; Weber, Martin - In: Journal of Banking & Finance 34 (2010) 12, pp. 2929-2940
We investigate whether loan growth affects the riskiness of individual banks in 16 major countries. Using Bankscope data from more than 16,000 individual banks during 1997-2007, we test three hypotheses on the relation between abnormal loan growth and asset risk, bank profitability, and bank...