Bank profitability, leverage constraints, and risk-taking:

Traditional theory suggests that higher bank profitability (or franchise value) dissuades bank risk-taking. We highlight an opposite effect: higher profitability loosens bank borrowing constraints. This enables profitable banks to take risk on a larger scale, inducing risk-taking. This effect is mor...

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Main Authors: Martynova, Natalya (Author), Ratnovski, Lev (Author), Vlahu, Razvan 1977- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
German
Published: Frankfurt am Main Deutsche Bundesbank [2019]
Series:Discussion paper / Deutsche Bundesbank no 21/2019
Online Access:Volltext
Summary:Traditional theory suggests that higher bank profitability (or franchise value) dissuades bank risk-taking. We highlight an opposite effect: higher profitability loosens bank borrowing constraints. This enables profitable banks to take risk on a larger scale, inducing risk-taking. This effect is more pronounced when bank leverage constraints are looser, or when new investments can be financed with senior funding (such as repos). The model's predictions are consistent with some notable cross-sectional patterns of bank risk-taking in the run-up to the 2008 crisis
Item Description:Zusammenfassung in deutsch und englisch
Physical Description:57 Seiten Diagramme
ISBN:9783957295958

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