and policy recommendations are considered, focusing on rebuilding bank liquidity and capital, strengthening bank …

What is the relationship between bank fragility and competition during a period of market turmoil? Does market power in … the context of Eurozone banking over 2005-2012 and show that greater market power increases bank stability implying … with government intervention. The negative influence of competition on bank stability is non-monotonic and reverses for …

for Bank Research (Bankwissenschaftliche Gesellschaft - BWG). The present SUERF Study 2015/2 includes a selection of …, jointly organized by SUERF, the OeNB and the Austrian Society for Bank Research. In reply to the financial crisis, the Great …

statement comparability and earnings smoothing for opportunistic reasons. Based on a sample of 628 US banks (4,683 bank … crisis (GFC) period. These results are robust to alternative specifications of comparability and earning management, bank …

We analyze the impact of efficiency on bank risk. We also consider whether bank capital has an effect on this … supporting the bad management and efficiency version of the moral hazard hypotheses. In contrast, bank efficiency improvements … contribute to shore up bank capital levels. Our findings suggest that banks lagging behind in their efficiency levels might …

The recent period of crisis in credit markets has highlighted the crucial role of bank risk taking. Our paper assesses … the inter-temporal relationships among bank efficiency, capital and bank risk-taking in the EU-26 commercial banking …

We analyze the impact of efficiency on bank risk. We also consider whether bank capital has an effect on this … supporting the bad management and efficiency version of the moral hazard hypotheses. In contrast, bank efficiency improvements … contribute to shore up bank capital levels. Our findings suggest that banks lagging behind in their efficiency levels might …