significantly influencing the risk-taking attitudes of bank managers. Particularly, we intend to substantiate the theory that banks … banking sectors due to a missing ability to monitor bank managers. Our results underline that these problems appear to mislead … bank managers showing an unreasonable risk-taking behavior. In a first stage, we rely on a theoretical model explaining …

remains uncertain no matter what European Central Bank President Mario Draghi may promise. Germany's "safe haven" status may …