The Nexus between Social Capital and Bank Risk Taking

Wenjing Xie, Haoyuan Ding and Terence Tai Leung Chong
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Wenjing Xie: Institute of International Business, Shanghai University of International Business and Economics, Shanghai 200000, China

JRFM, 2016, vol. 9, issue 3, 1-19

Abstract: This study explores social capital and its relevance to bank risk taking across countries. Our empirical results show that the levels of bank risk taking are lower in countries with higher levels of social capital, and that the impact of social capital is mainly reflected by the reduced value of the standard deviation of return on assets. Moreover, the impact of social capital is found to be weaker when the legal system lacks strength. Furthermore, the study considers the impacts of social capital of the banks’ largest shareholders in these countries and finds that high levels of social capital present in these countries exert a negative effect on bank risk taking, but the effect is not strongly significant.

Keywords: social capital; bank risk taking; trust (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C E F2 F3 G (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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