. At the transition point there is a jumpin risk taking, as private banks do not internalize the social costs of bank … data complementing existing evidence that financial instability is highest when bank control is capturedby small lobbies. …

Some have suggested that weaknesses in bank corporate governance played a prominent role in the recent financial crisis …, we are able to simultaneously account for the incentives and constraints that influence the major participants in a bank …'s management and oversight. We find that the stock ownership by bank managers, their wealth diversification, the structure of …

important institutions. Our findings indicate that bank owners are aware of the risk of losing charter value in an environment …