This paper offers evidence that bank managers adjust key strategic variables following a risk and/or valuation signal …. Banks receive a risk signal when they have a substantially higher volatility compared to the best performing bank(s) with … similar business model characteristics, and a valuation signal when they are undervalued relative to the average bank with …

The largest commercial bank stocks, ranked by the total size of the balance sheet, have significantly lower risk …-adjusted returns than small- and medium-sized bank stocks, even though large banks are significantly more levered. We uncover a size … factor in the component of bank returns that is orthogonal to the standard risk factors, including small-minus-big, which has …

The largest commercial bank stocks, ranked by total size of the balance sheet, have significantly lower risk …-adjusted returns than small- and medium-sized bank stocks, even though large banks are significantly more levered. We uncover a size … factor in the component of bank returns that is orthogonal to the standard risk factors, including small-minus-big, which has …

- and medium-sized bank stocks. I am to unable to replicate this finding despite many different empirical choices in my …