crisis of 2007–2008. For a sample of 384 listed banks from 56 countries, we calculate two measures of risk for the period …The recent financial crisis has clearly shown that the relationship between bank internationalization and risk is … complex. Multinational banks can benefit from portfolio diversification, reducing their overall riskiness, but this effect can …

We analyze the stability of efficiency rankings of German universal banks between 1993 and 2004. First, we estimate … different risk preferences and measure efficiency with a structural model based on utility maximization. Using the almost ideal … demand system, we estimate input and profit demand functions to obtain proxies for expected return and risk. Efficiency is …

crisis of 2007-2008. For a sample of 384 listed banks from 56 countries, we calculate two measures of risk for the period …The recent financial crisis has clearly shown that the relationship between bank internationalization and risk is … complex. Multinational banks can benefit from portfolio diversification, reducing their overall riskiness, but this effect can …

This paper sets out the criteria that boards and supervisors should use to determine whether banks are governing risk … correctly. First, boards have to set an overall risk target consistent with the overall return target. Second, the bank’s … business model has to set a risk capacity and risk appetite that can enable the bank to meet its target for risk and return …

crisis of 2007-2008. For a sample of 384 listed banks from 56 countries, we calculate two measures of risk for the period …The recent financial crisis has clearly shown that the relationship between bank internationalization and risk is … complex. Multinational banks can benefit from portfolio diversification, reducing their overall riskiness, but this effect can …

and profitability, as well as in the relationship between market concentration and risk. The empirical analysis was … performed on a sample of 15,399 banks from major OECD countries over the period 2002–2009. The results show that market power … concentration and risk had a quadratic relationship, while thereafter the increase in market concentration produced no increase in …

these Accords, namely the management of risk, that more work is still required particularly in relation to hedge funds and …

Employing data on Indian banks for 1997-2006, we test the behavior of capital buffers over the business cycle. The …

This paper studies the impact of competition on the determination of interest rates, and on banks’ risk taking … lower entry costs foster competition in deposit rates and reduce banks’ incentives to limit risk exposure. While higher … insurance coverage amplifies this effect, two alternative arrangements (risk based contributions to the deposit insurance fund …

incentives for increased risk taking. As a result, banks must be supervised and regulated to restrain their ability to shift risk …The justification for regulation of the safety and soundness of banks is similar in latin America to the justification … in the industrial world. Banks operate within a safety net of access to central bank funds in an emergency, and they are …