Investment, Financial, Trade Freedom and Risk-taking: Empirical Evidence from USA

• Abbas, Faisal ^[1] ; Batool, Dr. Noshaba ^[2] ; Sulehri, Fiaz Ahmad ^[3]
  1. [1] University of Central Punjab, Lahore, Pakitan
  2. [2] Air University Islamabad, Pakistan
  3. [3] The University of Lahore, Pakistan

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• Localización: Estudios de economía aplicada, ISSN 1133-3197, ISSN-e 1697-5731, Vol. 39, Nº 3, 2021 (Ejemplar dedicado a: SUSTAINABLE ECONOMICS)
• Idioma: inglés
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  • This study aims to explore investment, financial, and trade freedom impact on banks’ risk-taking. A unique dataset of large commercial banks of the USA covering the period 2002-2018 is used. The findings prove that financial freedom reduces the bank’s risk-taking whereas investment and trade freedom increase the risk-taking of large commercial banks in the observed period. The behavior of risk-taking due to financial, trade and investment freedom of under-capitalized and low-liquid banks seems to be marginally less impacted as compared to well-capitalized and high-liquid banks. The findings are robust using loan loss reserves as a risk measure and subclassification of a sample. The results suggest that the intervention of the government is decisive in developing the degree of economic freedom for the stability of the financial system.