This paper investigates the incentives for banks to bias their internally generated risk estimates. We are able to … estimate bank biases at the credit level by comparing bank-generated risk estimates within loan syndicates. The biases are … credits. In addition, we find that low-capital banks' risk estimates have less explanatory power than those of high …

This paper investigates the incentives for banks to bias their internally generated risk estimates. We are able to … estimate bank biases at the credit-level by comparing bank generated risk estimates within loan syndicates. The biases are … addition, we find that low-capital banks' risk estimates have less explanatory power than those of high-capital banks with …