This paper examines how governance and risk management affect risk-taking in banks. It distinguishes between good risks … such a reward. A well-governed bank takes the amount of risk that maximizes shareholder wealth subject to constraints … cost effective to do so. The role of risk management in such a bank is not to reduce the bank's total risk per se. It is to …

fund sector: controlling for a number of risk factors, the average probability that a hedge fund style index has extreme …