摘要:The aim of the paper is to investigate the relationship between competition and risk-taking in the banking industry.The paper provides a general theoretical model that incorporates the charter value models and models with contracting problems.In particular,the model contains a moral hazard problem and it enables investments into the risk-free asset.Competition on the loan side of the market is modeled as spatial competition.The model predicts that the relationship between competition and the probability of bank failure is non-monotonic and U shaped.The prediction of the model is verified by the empirical analysis conducted using the data from Czech banking sector.The HerfindahlHirschman index is used as a measurement of competition and the Z-score is used as measurement of the probability of bank failure.