The recent financial crisis has shown that the stability of the investment banking industry plays a key role for the soundness of the financial system as a whole. Do high competition and/or cost inefficiencies increase investment banks' insolvency (and capital) risks? Or, conversely, do...

Investment banks' core functions expose them to a wide array of risks. This paper analyses cost and profit efficiency for a sample of investment banks for the G7 countries (Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, UK and US) and Switzerland prior to the recent financial crisis. We follow Coelli et...

We investigate the risk-taking behaviour of Bank Holding Companies (BHCs) that are subject to the Dodd–Frank Act (DFA). Specifically, we employ a difference-in-differences method to assess the effectiveness of the DFA in reducing the riskiness of complex banks and their contribution to...