, policymakers, and bank managers for better decision making. …

This research aims to investigate the influence of bank capital, risk-based capital and bank capital buffers on the … behaviour of bank risk-taking by applying GMM on the data of US commercial banks ranges from 2002 to 2018. The findings show … that bank capital has a positive influence on total risk. However, risk-based capital and capital buffer have a negative …

-risk-based capital ratios and bank risk-taking. The findings also demonstrate that an increase in capital buffer ratios decreases the …

particular, I find that a bank affiliated with a multi-bank holding company is significantly safer than either a stand-alone bank … or a bank affiliated with a one-bank holding company. Not only does affiliation reduce the probability of future … other banks. Moreover, the effects of affiliation are strengthened for an expanding bank holding company. However, the …

period 1995-2007. In our model we used a combination of bank-based and industry-specific variables. Besides using the GMM … that there are not economies of scale if we consider the size of the bank. The results are robust in a number of methods of … estimation …