We examine the influence on managerial risk taking of incentives due to employment risk and due to compensation. Our … empirical investigation of the risk taking behavior of mutual fund managers indicates that managerial risk taking crucially … depends on the relative importance of these incentives. When employment risk is more important than compensation incentives …

study investigated the relationship between capital structure, portfolio risk levels and firm performance using a large … efficient banks increase capital holdings and take on greater credit risk while reducing risk-weighted assets. Moreover, it … appears that increasing the capital buffer impacts risk-taking by banks depending on their level of cost efficiency, which is …

behaviour under risk. We find that both, investment horizons and feedback frequency contribute almost equally to the effects of …

determinants of the capital stocks of MSEs in poor economies focusing on credit constraints and risk. The analysis is based on a … capital stocks in the early lifetime of MSEs. Furthermore, the analyses show that risk plays a key role in capital … accumulation. Risk-averse individuals seem to adjust their initially low capital stocks upwards when enterprises grow older. MSEs …

, where capital accumulates through increased density of capital at risk in a given area, it is optimal for (i) the … probability of disaster occurrence to decrease with income; (ii) the capital at risk - and thus the economic losses in case of … development and slower than income at high levels of development. In that case, increasing risk-taking reinforces economic growth …