directors holding a PhD on boards of large Czech banks enhances bank stability captured by Z-score. Moreover, we detect risk …-enhancing implications of board size for the segments of building savings societies and small and midsized banks. As for average board tenure …

This paper investigates the incentives for banks to bias their internally generated risk estimates. We are able to … by low-capital banks to improve regulatory ratios. At the portfolio level, the difference in borrower probability of … credits. In addition, we find that low-capital banks' risk estimates have less explanatory power than those of high …

The determinants of default risk of banks in emerging economies have so far received inadequate attention in the … the economy. Public sector banks have shown significant performance in containing bad debts. Private banks have continued … banks, apart from other accepted determinants of profitability, asset size has no significant impact on profitability. …

We develop a dynamic model of banking to assess the effects of liquidity and leverage requirements on banks' insolvency … risk. In this model, banks face taxation, flotation costs of securities, and default costs and maximize shareholder value …

Banks are growing ever larger compared to their national economies. We show that increases in relative bank size … (measured as a bank's liabilities divided by national GDP) are linked to banks displaying higher tail risk. This effect is not … entirely due to risk channels that disproportionately expose relatively large banks to systematic tail risks, sovereign risks …

the extent of attempt by Nigerian deposit money banks (DMBs) to solve the issue of adverse selection via signalling their …

We show that nonbanks (funds, shadow banks, fintech) affect the transmission of monetary policy to output, prices and …, borrowerlender relationships and Gertler-Karadi monetary policy shocks. Higher policy rates shift credit supply from banks to …