this adjustment seems to be delivered through changes in average risk weights. For this and other reasons, it is desirable … to regularly assess whether the evolution and current level of risk weights give rise to any risk of underestimating the …

-sample performance of our estimators. An empirical study of efficiency trends in the largest banks operating in the U.S. from 1990 to …

needed how banks are governed and how bank governance is associated with performance and risk taking. This report deals with … corporate governance matter. Higher executive team expertise is associated with superior bank outcomes regarding performance …, risk and efficiency. Compensation analyses show strong variation in compensation schemes between banks and bank divisions …

When purchasing a financial product, investors may actively decide upon the risk they take. This paper analyzes the … surroundings on their risk taking in the market of speculative exchange-traded retail products. Using a large trade dataset of … warrants and leverage certificates on an individual investor level, I find evidence that risk taking behavior is strongly …

of geographic diversification and distance on the performance of banks, the market power of loans and deposits, and the … effect of large and medium banks on the performance of small banks, a sample of commercial banks is selected. The study finds … that geographic diversification and distance between bank branches and headquarters do not affect the performance of the …

performance and risk, at both an accounting and a market-based level. Overall, these results suggest that not only markets and …Attributing ratings to the top-20 owners, we construct a Risk-Weighted Ownership index (RWO) to measure the … profitability and risk-taking behaviour of the ownership structure at banks. Collecting data from 19 European countries plus the UK …