Non-interest Income, Trading, and Bank Risk

Carl R. Chen, Ying Sophie Huang () and Ting Zhang
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Carl R. Chen: University of Dayton
Ying Sophie Huang: Zhejiang University
Ting Zhang: University of Dayton

Journal of Financial Services Research, 2017, vol. 51, issue 1, No 2, 19-53

Abstract: Abstract This study examines the interaction of bank risk and non-interest income (trading and non-trading) controlling for the executive incentive compensation effect. We do not find executive stock option compensation (ESO) directly impacts bank risk. On the contrary, bank non-interest income, both trading and non-trading revenue components, positively and significantly affects bank risk. This result is robust to the difference-in-difference regressions, bank fixed effect, and the exclusion of too-big-to-fail banks. In a simultaneous equations setting, non-interest income activities affect bank risk of all types, while ESO does not. Moreover, idiosyncratic risk has a positive effect on bank non-interest income activities, but systematic risk has no effect. This result suggests that executives of banks with high idiosyncratic risk have more incentive to expand into the territory of non-interest income activities. Since high-risk banks pose more concern to investors and regulators, we further examine bank risk by means of quantile regressions which dissect the behavior of banks at the tail risk distribution. The findings point out that banks’ decision to diversify into non-traditional business lines is associated with risks in high-risk banks. The impact of non-interest income/trading revenues on bank risk increases in risk, and often the largest impact is spotted for banks with extreme risks. This implies that the leverage effect of non-interest income/trading activities is larger in high-risk banks.

Keywords: Bank risk; Executive compensation; Bank diversification; Non-interest income; Bank trading; Quantile regression (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G21 G32 G34 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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