Although banks are at the center of systemic risk, there are other institutions that contribute to it. With the publication of the leveraged lending guideline in March 2013, the U.S. regulators show that they are especially worried about the private equity firms with their high-risk deals. Given...

We analyze how the structure of executive compensation affects the risk choices made by bank CEOs. For a sample of acquiring US banks, we employ the Merton distance to default model to show that CEOs with higher pay-risk sensitivity engage in risk-inducing mergers. Our findings are driven by two...

This paper intends to evaluate the impact of financial deregulation of US before 2008 through how the risks associated with mergers and acquisitions (M&As) affect banks' levels of solvency. This paper is the first that hypothesizes bank solvency to be affected by M&As directly and indirectly...