Baugh, Matthew; Ege, Matthew; Yust, Christopher G. - 2021
Using a sample of bank-years from 2005 to 2017, we examine the effect of internal control quality on future risk … non-core activities of banks. Overall, results suggest that strong internal controls improve bank risk-taking, in part … through asymmetrically reducing downside risk-taking while facilitating upside risk-taking, ultimately improving bank …