This study investigates whether regulations have an independent effect on bank risk-taking or whether their effect is channeled through the market power possessed by banks. Given a well-established set of theoretical priors, the regulations considered are capital requirements, restrictions on...

This paper analyses the relationship between board structure, in terms of board size and composition, and bank performance in terms of both cost and profit efficiency. Unlike previous studies, the present analysis is carried out within a stochastic frontier framework, while we use a suitable...

This study investigates the relationship between regulations, competition, and risk-taking in the Central and Eastern European banking sectors between 1994 and 2005. We build an empirical model that employs a non-structural measure of competition, various proxies for regulations and both static...