Karam, Iline
(Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2016)
Purpose - This paper aims at investigating the impact of bank liquidity on the risk-taking
behavior of the Lebanese commercial banks.
Methodology - To achieve this objective, this study considers the impact of seven
variables, namely, liquidity, size, capital, profitability, loan ratio, efficiency and revenue
diversification by using a panel data of audited financial statement of Lebanese
commercial banks for the period from 2008 to 2015. Three models were tested depending
on the definition of risk and eight hypotheses were investigated using the fixed effect
model.
Findings - Empirical ...