In this paper, we analyse whether bank owners or bank managers were the driving force behind the risks incurred in the … manager-controlled banks. The results are robust to controlling for a wide variety of bank specific, country specific …, regulatory and legal variables. Regulation does not seem to mitigate risk taking by bank owners. We find no evidence that profit …

volatility of growth and profitability are bank-size dependent, and (iii) the relationship between growth and profitability of a … bank. Using a dynamic panel model estimated by GMM for a mixed sample of more than 1500 banks from 65 countries, we find no … evidence of persistence in bank growth. However, our findings suggest significant persistence in bank profitability. Moreover …

an optimal response of the winner's prize to the size of the contestant pool is more evident for China's listed firms … to decide on the tournament winner). Using comprehensive financial and accounting data on China's listed firms from 1998 … effort and hence improved firm performance, and that the performance effect of the winner's prize is greater for China …

This paper investigates the relationship between short-term interest rates and bank risk. Using a unique database that …

address the following questions. How are macroeconomic shocks transmitted to bank risk and other banking variables? What are … the sources of bank heterogeneity, and what explains differences in individual banks' responses to macroeconomic shocks …? Our paper has two main findings: (i) Average bank risk declines, and average bank lending increases following expansionary …

address the following questions. How are macroeconomic shocks transmitted to bank risk and other banking variables? What are … the sources of bank heterogeneity, and what explains differences in individual banks' responses to macroeconomic shocks …? Our paper has two main findings: (i) Average bank risk declines, and average bank lending increases following expansionary …

Accurate measurement of bank risk is a matter of considerable importance for bank regulation and supervision. Current …. Market monitoring of bank risk has typically been tested by regressing market-based risk indicators on various benchmark … indicators (such as accounting ratios and credit ratings) to detect whether the market tracks bank risk. This approach overlooks …

This paper investigates contagion between bank risk and sovereign risk in Europe over the period 2006-2011. Since this … period covers various stages of the banking and sovereign crisis, it offers a fertile ground to analyze bank/sovereign risk … explained by common factors, using CDS spreads at the bank and at the sovereign level. Moreover, we investigate the determinants …