Traditional theory suggests that higher bank profitability (or franchise value) dissuades bank risk-taking. We … highlight an opposite effect: higher profitability loosens bank borrowing constraints. This enables profitable banks to take … risk on a larger scale, inducing risk-taking. This effect is more pronounced when bank leverage constraints are looser, or …

This paper applies the dichotomous theory of choice by Zou (2000a) tothe analysis of investmentstrategies and security …

.My theory is able to explain why the percentage abnormal returns on the trades of corporate insiders are high while dollar …

earnings when measuring the return on equity of firms while constructing the profitability factor in the Fama and French (2015 …) five factor model. The profitability factor we construct has significant alpha relative to many extant multi-factor asset …-pricing models, including the standard Fama-French five factor model. When the profitability factor in the Fama and French (2015 …

, with a particular emphasis on bank profitability. Methodologically, it employs two multivariate time series models, namely … alongside a novel bank-level dataset for selected Maltese core banks compiled by merging data from various sources. Forecasting … comprehensive profitability outlook for the Maltese core banking sector. Key findings are summarized as follows: (i) neither of the …

are regulated, including the need to obtain a charter to operate and explicit and implicit federal guarantees of bank … liabilities to reduce the probability of bank runs. These aspects of banking affect a bankś choice of risk vs. expected return …, which, in turn, affects bank performance. Banks have an incentive to reduce risk to protect the valuable charter from …