Eufinger, Christian; Gill, Andrej - 2016 - Last revised: May 20, 2016
schemes. We argue that excessive risk-taking in the financial sector originates from the shareholder moral hazard created by … by curbing risk-taking incentives, the higher the leverage the bank is permitted to take on. Consequently, the risk …-shifting incentives caused by government guarantees and the risk-mitigating incentives created by the compensation structure offset each …