We find evidence of a bank lending channel for the euro area operating via bank risk. Financial innovation and the new … ways to transfer credit risk have tended to diminish the informational content of standard bank balance-sheet indicators …. We show that bank risk conditions, as perceived by financial market investors, need to be considered, together with the …

We analyze the impact of efficiency on bank risk. We also consider whether bank capital has an effect on this … supporting the bad management and efficiency version of the moral hazard hypotheses. In contrast, bank efficiency improvements … contribute to shore up bank capital levels. Our findings suggest that banks lagging behind in their efficiency levels might …

identifies current challenges for the bank-based financial sectors as mainly stemming from: (i) high or rising domestic credit …

enhances the incentives of banks to expand within Euroland. Yet, while the currency bias in bank portfolios will be eliminated …

-out guarantee. The reason is that the prospect of a bail-out induces the protected bank to expand, thereby intensifying competition … in the deposit market and depressing other banks? margins. In contrast, the effects on the protected bank?s risk …

This paper discusses the relationship between bank size and risk-taking under Pillar I of the New Basel Capital Accord …

and interbank rate risk on the optimaldecisions on deposits and loans of a competitive bank. It is found that dueto the … bank's behavior.Moreover, it is shown that there is an interaction between the effects of theintroduction of risk and … economies or diseconomies of scope in the bank?sbusiness which determines the extend of behavioral changes. …

volatility of growth and profitability are bank-size dependent, and (iii) the relationship between growth and profitability of a … bank. Using a dynamic panel model estimated by GMM for a mixed sample of more than 1500 banks from 65 countries, we find no … evidence of persistence in bank growth. However, our findings suggest significant persistence in bank profitability. Moreover …