Factors Affecting Bank Risk-Taking: Evidence from Tunisia

Zribi Nabila and Boujelbène Younes

The IUP Journal of Bank Management, 2012, vol. XI, issue 1, 47-69

Abstract: The objective of this paper is to analyze the main factors (microeconomic and macroeconomic indicators) that are likely to influence the decision of bank risk-taking, with special emphasis on bank corporate governance, bank capital regulation, bank charter value and bank size. Our paper aims at testing such a relationship in the context of an emerging country ‘Tunisia’ over the period 1999-2008. Generally, our results suggest that the board structure and the ownership structure affect the level of bank risks. Prudential regulations of capital and bank size are positively associated with bank risks. Finally, the decline of franchise values increases bank risks.

Date: 2012
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