This study investigates the relationship between bank capital and risk in the Indian banking sector. The sample … causality test to find out the relationship between risk and capital. The result signifies that there is a unidirectional … causality, i.e. risk is causing capital for all the three types of commercial banks. Furthermore, we examine the impact of risk …

We show that systemic risk in the banking sector breeds macroeconomic uncertainty. We develop a model of a production …-driven uncertainty amplifies business cycle volatility, increases risk premia on asset prices and yields a new benefit from …

In this paper we investigate the relationship between changes in risk and changes in leverage for a panel of Swiss … banks. Using market data for risk and both accounting and market data for capital for the period between 1990 and 2002, we … find a positive correlation between changes in capital and changes in risk, i.e., higher levels of capital are associated …

Conventional wisdom in banking argues that diversification tends to reduce bank risk and improve performance, but the … recent financial crisis suggests that aggressive diversification strategies may have resulted in increased risk taking and … diversification strategies and the risk-return tradeoff in banking. Our data set covers Russian banks during the 1999-2006 period and …

This paper analyses the risk and return of loans portfolios in a joint setting. I develop a model to obtain the … with a Value at Risk constraint. I also obtain closed form expressions for the interest rates that banks should set in … compensation for borrowers' credit risk under absence of arbitrage opportunities and I use these rates as a benchmark to interpret …

We describe characteristics of various risk measures (Value-at-Risk, Expected Shortfall, etc.) that are used to analyze … and quantify the tail risk exposure, and discuss their relative strengths and weaknesses. Emphasis is placed on presenting … and comparing methodologies to compute and backtest estimates for these risk measures, from a practical perspective. We …

Bancorp, Inc., et al. v. Board of Governors (1985), and analyze its impact on stock prices and risk incentives in affected … is mostly due to takeover speculation on expected targets. These price reactions negatively impact subsequent risk …