requires assessing both efficiency and risk factors, so Laeven also introduces a measure of risk taking. This risk measure … foreign-owned - tended to be heavy risk takers. Most of them had excessive credit growth. - Laeven uses a linear programming … Philippines, and Thailand. He applies this technique to the precrisis period 1992-96. Assessing a bank's overall performance …

the inter-temporal relationships among bank efficiency, capital and bank risk-taking in the EU-26 commercial banking …The recent period of crisis in credit markets has highlighted the crucial role of bank risk taking. Our paper assesses …, our paper provides evidence that higher performance (enhanced efficiency) has been not related to higher managerial skills …