the determinants of bank risk-taking still remains limited and the evidence is conflicting. Most studies concentrate on US … are almost no papers on this subject for cooperative banks in Japan. Thus, the main contribution of this study is to shed … some light on the determinants of bank risk-taking and analyse its relationship with capital and efficiency in Japanese …

, more efficient, and unchallenged. In contrast, several studies found that when bank size increases beyond certain … interest margins. This study examines the connection between bank size and efficiency to understand whether that relationship …-overlapping thresholds for bank size. We found two key results. First, bank size increases bank interest rate margins with an inverted U …

financial assets. If the U.S. banking system is more competitive, this questions whether an increase in bank competition will …

decades by deep changes, mainly due to the new applicable bank legislation, to a progressive European integration, and the …

quasi-exogenous increases in bank size in postwar Germany. I show that firms did not grow faster after their relationship …, but worked with riskier borrowers. Bank managers benefited through higher salaries and media attention. The paper presents …

quasi-exogenous increases in bank size in postwar Germany. I show that firms did not grow faster after their relationship …, but worked with riskier borrowers. Bank managers benefited through higher salaries and media attention. The paper presents …

This paper provides new estimates of cost scale economies for Italian banks, based on a model of bank production that …