some light on the determinants of bank risk-taking and analyse its relationship with capital and efficiency in Japanese …The risk-capital positions of Japanese banks have been under tension throughout the 1990s. However, existing theory on … the determinants of bank risk-taking still remains limited and the evidence is conflicting. Most studies concentrate on US …

of increased risk and lowered capital, banks have tended to improve cost efficiency. The results also indicate that cost … to greater revenue efficiency. In the absence of developed capital markets, competitive forces and strengthened … customers the cost of raising capital buffers and provisioning for risk. …

We assess the relationship between bank efficiency, risk and capital for a sample of Chinese commercial banks employing … three efficiency indexes and four risk indicators under a three stage least square method in a panel data framework. The … fraction to total loans or LLPTL) and efficiency in Chinese banking industry, while the relationship between risk (Z-score) and …

The idea of development of capital markets and hence securities firms had resurfaced after 1980’s in Turkey, the latest … Banking Crisis of 1982 (or Banker Crisis). The number of securities firms were dramatically increased in Turkey during the … tendency is still going on in the securities firm business (Coşkun, 2009a: 2). In this process, some argue that risk management …

propose an analysis of profit efficiency taking into account how the inclusion of a variety of bank risk measures might bias … now. However, most of the existing literature to date has not explicitly accounted for risk when measuring efficiency. We … efficiency scores. Our measures of risk are partly inspired by the literature on earnings management and earnings quality taking …