Answers should be typed and submitted in one single document using Microsoft Word or a PDF to the designated area on the VLE page. The question number and the multiple-part questions must be indicated at the start of each answer.
- Discuss to which extent competitive markets for banks create incentives towards good corporate governance.
- Discuss different types of strategies that banks can use to achieve competitive advantages.
- Use the Client-Arena-Product (CAP) framework to explain the evolution of bank strategies from the 1980s to the 2010s.
- Discuss to which extent the funding models used by banks have evolved before and after the Global Financial Crisis of 2007–09.
- Outline lessons for optimal bank strategies that emerge from recent case studies of banks’ mergers and acquisitions.
- Analyze the different categories of risks that banks face and how those can be optimally managed.
- Critically assess to which extent the process of securitization creates systemic risk.
- Identify the potential for moral hazard and adverse selection in relation to banking regulation.
