Faculty Publications
Once Bitten Twice Shy? Evidence From The U.S. Banking Industry During The Crash Of The Energy Market
Document Type
Article
Keywords
Bank risk culture, Energy crash, Financial crises
Journal/Book/Conference Title
Energy Economics
Volume
92
Abstract
We explore whether banks learn from past experience and modify their risk culture. Evaluating bank risk culture during the 2014 energy crash fueled by excessive bank lending, we find banks with a quick recovery after the 2007 subprime crisis find it unnecessary to change their risk culture, and banks that struggled to recover modify their risk culture following the subprime crisis. As a result, banks with poorer stock performance and a lower z-score during the subprime crisis that had a quick recovery are more likely to underperform during the energy crash. However, results show that while these banks do not modify their overall risk culture, they have learned from the subprime crisis by better positioning themselves for potential losses. In addition, larger banks and banks that did not receive TARP funding have not significantly changed their risk culture following the subprime crisis.
Original Publication Date
10-1-2020
DOI of published version
10.1016/j.eneco.2020.104981
Repository
UNI ScholarWorks, Rod Library, University of Northern Iowa
Language
en
Recommended Citation
Chen, Zhongdong; Craig, Karen Ann; and Karpovics, Mikhael, "Once Bitten Twice Shy? Evidence From The U.S. Banking Industry During The Crash Of The Energy Market" (2020). Faculty Publications. 252.
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/facpub/252
