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Inside Debt and Bank Risk in Financial Institutions: Insights from Corporate Governance Studies

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This conference summary discusses how inside debt can impact enterprise-wide bank risk from a corporate governance perspective. The paper analyzes how focusing on realized bank risk is crucial in understanding top managers' risk-taking behavior. It assesses the significance of the study within the broader literature on financial institution governance, emphasizing the value of studying both risk and performance. The analysis also raises questions about managerial quality, the timing of risk realization, and the period's representativeness. Overall, it highlights the importance of examining inside debt's influence on bank risk in financial institutions.

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Inside Debt and Bank Risk in Financial Institutions: Insights from Corporate Governance Studies

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  1. Inside Debt and Enterprise-Wide Bank RiskSjoerd van Bekkum Discussion by Patrick Verwijmeren Conference “Corporate governance of financial institutions”

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  3. Conclusion • Inside debt reduces realized bank risk Overall assessment: • Highly relevant topic • Part of a stream of new literature • Paper has many nice features

  4. Comments • Is the focus on risk or performance? • Stress that this is an example in which risk turned out to be value destroying

  5. Comments • When focusing on performance: Think about the quality of the manager • Endogeneity: executive age • When focusing on risk: Did top managers even know they were taking huge risks? • How representative is this period?

  6. Is this a good paper? • Yes: relevant topic, careful analysis, nicely written • Explain a bit more why studying realized risk is a useful addition to studying expected risk • High informational asymmetry?

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