, their ownership structures, and national bank regulations. We focus on conflicts between bank managers and owners over risk …, and show that bank risk taking varies positively with the comparative power of shareholders within the corporate … governance structure of each bank. Moreover, we show that the relation between bank risk and capital regulations, deposit …

may threaten financial stability by increasing bank failures and by increasing the incentives for banks to take on more … financial stability and strengthen the banking system is to adopt a system of structured bank capital requirements with early …

quasi-exogenous increases in bank size in postwar Germany. I show that firms did not grow faster after their relationship …, but worked with riskier borrowers. Bank managers benefited through higher salaries and media attention. The paper presents …

A bank or other financial institution is potentially subject to at least four types of risk: (1) Credit risk …. This paper reports a study of the interest-rate elasticity of the net worth of a commercial bank. Most of the study is … devoted to the development of the necessary methodology to measure the interest-rate elasticity (IRE) of a bank's asset …

bank supervision and eventually produce banking crisis. For political reasons, most countries establish a regulatory … culture that embraces three economically contradictory elements: politically directed subsidies to selected bank borrowers …