Diversification possibilities enable investors to manage portfolio risk and decrease exposure to it, in order to prevent their portfolios from losing value. Well-diversified portfolio is the one that contains different asset classes with low return’s correlations. Essentially, portfolio...

Based on a dynamic panel data analysis of South-Eastern European (SEE) banks over 10-year period, this paper explores risk-taking implications of changes in capital buffers. Its findings support the capital buffer theory. Firstly, banks increase their asset riskiness within the capital buffers...