As part of the Brown Bag Lunch series, the International Economics Department at the Graduate Institute is pleased to invite you to a public talk given by Naël Shehadeh, Senior Program Manager for the Bilateral Assistance and Capacity Building for Central Banks (BCC). He will present his research titled

Bank profitability and moral hazard

Abstract: We investigate bank profitability and risk taking attitudes in bank lending. Using a novel dataset from the credit registry of an emerging economy, we study lending dynamics and  bank profitability in an oligopolistic market. Our preliminary results suggest that the most profitable banks are also driving the most risky loans to domestic firms.