Commercial banks play an important role in the development of a country. A sound, progressive and dynamic banking system is a fundamental requirement for economic development. Thus, the purpose of this study was investigating the impact of investment diversification on financial performance of...

In modern frameworks for financial regulation such as Basel III, IV as well as Solvency II, financial institutions are regulated to maintain a certain level of capital to prepare for potential future losses. In this paper, we take the perspective of a regulator who designs regulatory capital...

We show that a pattern of earnings management in bank financial statements has little bearing on downside risk during quiet periods, but seems to have a big impact during a financial crisis. More aggressive earnings managers prior to 2007 exhibit substantially higher risk once the financial...

The problem of credit risk management at commercial banks is solved using the stochastic dominance criteria supplementing them with the voting theory elements. The developed stochastic dominance algorithm is based on an investment approach whose basic concept consists in management of both...

Little is known about the location of bank risk, i.e., which investors in which countries hold bank-issued securities like bonds and stocks. In this paper, we analyze the (re-)distribution of bank risk across asset classes (short- and long-term debt, equity), across investor types and across...

Commercial banks assume various kinds of financial risks which are related to the financial operation of a business and arise due to the volatility of market conditions, credit quality, and liquidity position. This study empirically examines the effect of financial risk on performance of some...

The proposal “Convertible/Bail-inable Dividend Bonds“ aims to reduce limited liability of bank owners: We propose that part (or the whole) dividends of the banks are not paid out cash to the equity holders. The dividends of the banks are given to the supervisory authority, which issues...

One of the controversies of diversification is that it may not be beneficial to banks, as it tends to increase systemic risk. Recent theoretical and empirical work have addressed this problem. We argue, from a theoretical perspective, that this controversy ultimately depends on how risk is...

Using a unique data set on German banks' sector specific loan exposures to the real economy and the corresponding write-offs and write-downs, we examine the impact of loan portfolio sector concentration on credit risk. By controlling for common risk factors, we separate the bank-specific...

Recent policy discussion includes the introduction of diversification requirements for sovereign bond portfolios of European banks. In this paper, we evaluate the possible effects of these constraints on risk and diversification in the sovereign bond portfolios of the major European banks....