Bank governance, regulation and risk taking
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors conduct an empirical assessment of theories concerning risk taking by banks, their ownership structures, and national bank regulations, and show that bank risk taking varies positively with the comparative power of shareholders within the corporate governance structure of each bank.
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About: This article is published in Journal of Financial Economics. The article was published on 01 Aug 2009. and is currently open access. The article focuses on the topics: National bank & Bank regulation.
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