We study the relationship between banks’ size and risk-taking in the context of supranational banking supervision. Consistently with theoretical work on banking unions and in contrast to analyses emphasising incentives underpinned by the too-big-to-fail effect, we find an inverse relationship...

The paper identifies the business models followed by banks in the euro area, utilising a proprietary dataset collected in the context of the supervisory reporting of the Single Supervisory Mechanism. The concept of a 'business model' has been neglected by economic theory and is defined here with...

This study examines in parallel the determinants of interest and non-interest income in the Greek banking system aiming to understand the primary drivers of overall profitability for Greek banks. Using dynamic panel data techniques and a unique data set, including supervisory data, covering the...