Market structure, capital regulation and bank risk taking

Journal of Financial Services Research

Volumn 37, Issue 2-3, 2010, Pages 131-158

  Behr, Patrick ^a   Schmidt, Reinhard H ^a   Xie, Ru ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Banks; Capital regulation; Franchise value; Market structure; Risk shifting

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953122574     PISSN: 09208550     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10693-009-0054-y     Document Type: Article

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