This paper illustrates channels by which regulations that require banks to hold liquid assets can either increase or decrease a bank's incentive to take risk with its remaining ineligible assets. A greater capacity to respond to liquidity stress increases the potential profits a bank would put...

This paper studies the long-run evolution of bank risk and its links to the macroeconomy. Using data for 17 advanced economies, we show that the riskiness of bank assets declined materially between 1870 and 2016. But even though bank assets have become safer, the losses on these assets are...

This study is aimed to examine the impact of income diversification on bank risk in Vietnam before and during the COVID-19 pandemic by studying commercial banks over the period 2012-2020. By employing the fixed effects model (FEM) and general least squares model (FGLS), our main result shows...