We investigate whether the relationship between competition and risk varies across different types of Japanese banks over the period 2000-2009. The results of our empirical investigation show that risk varies across bank types. Specifically, nationwide (City and Trust) banks are riskier on...

In this paper, we investigate the impact of liquidity requirements on bank risk. We take advantage of the implementation of the Liquidity Balance Rule (LBR) in the Netherlands in 2003 and analyze its impact on bank default risk. The LBR was imposed on Dutch banks only and did not apply to other...

We investigate how a change in regulatory oversight affects bank risk. Using the passage of the Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act of 2018 as a setting, and a sample of bank holding companies (BHCs) over the period 2015Q1 through 2020Q1, we find that risk increases...

We analyze the impact of efficiency on bank risk. We also consider whether bank capital has an effect on this relationship. We model the inter-temporal relationships among efficiency, capital and risk for a large sample of commercial banks operating in the European Union. We find that reductions...