Incentives for risk-taking in banking - A unified approach

Journal of Banking and Finance

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 759-777

  Jeitschko, Thomas D ^a   Jeung, Shin Dong ^b  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b KT   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Bank capitalization; Banks' risk; Equity value maximization; Moral hazard; Option value of deposit insurance

Indexed keywords

EID: 11344254048     PISSN: 03784266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4266(04)00057-3     Document Type: Article

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