Disciplinary tools and bank risk exposure

Mamiza Haq, Robert Faff, Rama Seth, Sunil Mohanty

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    Abstract

    We investigate the impact of bank capital, market discipline and charter value as bank disciplinary tools on both bank equity risk (systematic risk, total risk, and idiosyncratic risk) and default risk/credit risk. We analyse 218 listed banks across 15 Asia-Pacific countries, and find that bank risk is positively related to bank capital and negatively related to charter value. Consistent with Pillar 3, Basel II and Basel III, we also find that bank risk is negatively associated with market discipline. Further, our results provide evidence that market discipline complements bank capital while market discipline substitutes bank self-disciplinary tools such as charter value. Finally, the magnitude of the charter value coefficient fall dramatically with the global financial crisis across all risk measures. The results are robust to different estimation specifications.
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)37-64
    Number of pages28
    JournalPacific-Basin Finance Journal
    Volume26
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2014

    Keywords

    • Asia Pacific
    • bank capital
    • tools

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