bank risk taking. We measure CEO overconfidence using press data, and bank risk taking using the standard deviation of … stock returns. Controlling for a number of CEO- and bank-specific variables, we find that banks managed by overconfident …

This paper examines the relation between bank charter value and risk taking. Using a sample of U.S. banks over the …

-taking incentives of bank CEOs. Using a sample of U.S. banks over the period 1992-2006, we provide empirical evidence consistent with …