Government Support, Regulation, and Risk Taking in the Banking Sector

Publicado en

  • Journal of Banking & Finance

Resumen

  • Government support to banks through the provision of explicit or implicit guarantees affects the willingness of banks to take on risk by reducing market discipline or by increasing charter value. We use an international sample of rated banks and find that government support is associated with more risk taking by banks. More importantly, we find that restricting banks’ range of activities ameliorates the link between government support and bank risk taking. We conclude that, in the presence of moral hazard induced by government support, reducing bank complexity strengthens market discipline.

fecha de publicación

  • 2020

Líneas de investigación

  • Bank Regulation
  • Bank Risk
  • Government Support
  • Market Discipline

Volumen

  • 112