Delis, Manthos D; Tsionas, Efthymios - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
In this paper we reconsider the formal estimation of the risk of financial intermediaries. Risk is modeled as the … variability of the profit function of a representative intermediary, here bank, as formally considered in finance theory. In turn …, banking theory suggests that risk is determined simultaneously with profits and other bank- and industry-level characteristics …