We consider the impact of mandatory information disclosure on bank safety in a spatial model of banking competition in … which a bank's probability of success depends on the quality of its risk measurement and management systems. Under Basel II …

mechanisms for bank risk-taking studied in a large partial equilibrium literature. We show that competitive equilibriums maximize … banks is higher than that of banks enjoying monopoly rents, and is robust to the introduction of social costs of bank … failures. In this model, there is no trade-off between bank competition and financial stability …

the lowest feasible level of bank risk. Conversely, if the intermediation technology exhibits constant returns to scale …, or is relatively inefficient, then imperfect competition and intermediate levels of bank risks are optimal. These results …

The relation between dividends and bank soundness has recently drawn much attention from both academics and policy … makers. However, the existing literature lacks an investigation of the relation between dividends and bank risk taking. I …

the lowest feasible level of bank risk. Conversely, if the intermediation technology exhibits constant returns to scale …, or is relatively inefficient, then imperfect competition and intermediate levels of bank risks are optimal. These results …