Risk is an important factor in explaining capital structure choices of companies. This paper proposes a framework where … we realized a study case: in this study we test if return on assets and return on equity has influence on the risk, both … the Bucharest Stock Exchange within the time period 2005-2009. For the study our results reveal that dynamic global risk …

Study of risk has become more and more lately, the whole general theory of management due to increasing complexity of … important changes in approach theoretical and practical aspects of risk and uncertainty. Were imposed, first, the concepts „risk … specifically on the definition and sources of system risk and its association with financial crises. …

This paper investigates social influences on attitudes to risk and offers an evolutionary explanation of risk-taking by … may take fair gambles even though they are risk averse in both wealth and status. Here their model is generalised by use … terms of the status or rewards available as well as in initial endowments. While Becker et al. found that risk-taking is …

This paper studies how a bank’s diversification affects its own risk taking behavior and the risk taking of competing …, nondiversified banks. By combining theories of bank organization, market structure and risk taking, I show that greater geographic … this relationship as they indicate that a bank’s risk taking is lower when its competitors have a more diversified branch …

Purpose – This paper aims to analyze the impact of busy directors on bank risk. Busy directors are directors with …-busy boards of directors. Second, multivariate regression analysis is used with two measures of bank risk as the dependent … variable to see whether busy directors impact bank risk, while controlling for other factors that may influence risk. Findings …

peasants to include the trading of small parcels of land as part of their risk coping strategy. We argue that these events are …. When agents are able to trade productive assets to manage risk, the resulting dynamics may generate increasing inequality …

Program (HARP). We use a competing risk model to estimate the sensitivity of default risk to downward adjustments of borrowers … an average loss given default of 35.2 percent, this lower default risk implies reduced credit losses of 134 basis points …