significantly influencing the risk-taking attitudes of bank managers. Particularly, we intend to substantiate the theory that banks … banking sectors due to a missing ability to monitor bank managers. Our results underline that these problems appear to mislead … bank managers showing an unreasonable risk-taking behavior. In a first stage, we rely on a theoretical model explaining …

implications. Chapters also investigate topics such as bank efficiency and new bank business models from a business diversification … perspective, the effects on financial exclusion and how liquidity mismatches are related with the bank business model. This book …1) A Note on Regulatory Arbitrage: Bank Risk, Capital Risk, Interest Rate Risk and ALM in European Banking; Magnus …

geographic distribution of bank lending, matched lender-borrower financial statements, and borrower defaults, we find that the …