The regulatory and institutional environment may influence bank risk taking behavior, especially in emerging market economies. The resulting excess risk may hamper bank stability. This article investigates the influence of institutional factors on bank's excess risk and ratings, particularly...

The primary purpose of this article is to investigate the relationship between bank capital and credit risk taking in emerging market economies. We also investigate the influence of several regulatory, institutional and legal features on the relationship between risk and capital. We apply a...

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the regulatory and institutional factors which may increase excessive risk taking in banks. Few studies deal with the impact of these external factors on bank's risk taking and probability of default, despite the fact that empirical investigation is...

This article proposes to apply the methodology of scoring and calibration in order to study the coherence of the ratings of banks with a model of defect of the banks in the emergent countries. Indeed, the role of the rating in time that vector of discipline of market, via the vehiculation of...

This article investigates the impact of institutional and regulatory factors on banks' default in emerging market economies. Few studies have investigated bank default in these economies. Although, the quality of institutions which determine investors' protection and bank regulation's efficiency...

Regulatory and institutional environment is not without effect on bank's risk taking and therefore on bank's default. In this article, we investigate regulatory and institutional determinants of credit risk taking and bank's default probability in emerging market economies. Using a two step...

The regulatory and institutional environment may influence bank risk taking behavior, especially in emerging market economies. The resulting excess risk may hamper bank stability. This article investigates the influence of institutional factors on bank's excess risk and ratings, particularly...

This article investigates the impact of institutional and regulatory factors on banks' default in emerging market economies. Few studies have investigated bank default in these economies. Although, the quality of institutions which determine investors' protection and bank regulation's efficiency...

Regulatory and institutional environment is not without effect on a bank's risk taking and therefore on a bank's default. In this article, we investigate regulatory and institutional determinants of credit risk taking and bank's default probability in emerging market economies. Using a two step...

We investigate the impact of bank competition on the use of collateral in loan contracts. We develop a theoretical model incorporating information asymmetries in a spatial competition framework where banks choose between screening the borrower and asking for collateral. We show that presence of...