The paper revisits the impact of uncertainty on the decision problem of a bank. The bank extends risky loans to private … is endogenized through an information system that conveys public signals about the return distribution of bank loans … raises expected bank profits, but may lead to a higher or lower expected loan volume. Moreover, higher transparency may …

We study the implications of the value at risk concept for the bank's optimum amount of equity capital under credit … managerial and market factors. Furthermore, the bank's equity and asset/liability management has to be addressed simultaneously … by bank managers. …

We study the implications of the value at risk concept for the bank's optimum amount of equity capital under credit … managerial and market factors. Furthermore, the bank's equity and asset/liability management has to be addressed simultaneously … by bank managers. …

We examine risk taking when the bank's preferences exhibit smooth ambiguity aversion. Ambiguity is modeled by a second …-order probability distribution that captures the bank's uncertainty about which of the subjective beliefs govern the financial asset … the case of greater ambiguity aversion. Given that the competitive bank's smooth ambiguity preferences exhibit non …