paper examines the main bank risk determinants in Latin America. The period analysed covers the timespan from 1999 to 2013 …-driven comparable methodology to classify and select commercial banks from the sample. We study bank risk proxied by the Z-score. In the … analysis, we apply bank specific, macroeconomic and regulatory variables. We use the system-GMM estimator as our main empirical …

paper examines the main bank risk determinants in Latin America. The period analysed covers the timespan from 1999 to 2013 …-driven comparable methodology to classify and select commercial banks from the sample. We study bank risk proxied by the Z-score. We use …

This paper discusses the relationship between bank size and risk-taking under Pillar I of the New Basel Capital Accord …

-out guarantee. The reason is that the prospect of a bail-out induces the rotected bank to expand, thereby intensifying competition … in the deposit market and depressing other banks' margins. In contrast, the effects on the protected bank's risk taking …

We analyze the relationship between bank size and risk-taking under the New Basel Capital Accord. Using a model with …