This paper examines the effect of facial attractiveness on the compensation of bank Chief Executive Officers (CEOs …). Consistent with the so-called beauty premium hypothesis, we document that good looks pay off for bank CEOs. Specifically, by … unrelated to the annual base salary. The total compensation of above-average looking bank CEOs is almost 17 percent higher than …

. In this paper, we establish that liquidity and capital ratios had a positive impact on bank returns during the first … identify deposit franchise and risk management as two key channels through which stronger financial stability improved bank …

estate loan growth, and 15 percentage points lower crisis period stock returns. Bank decisions appear consistent with CEO …

We investigate the effect of executives and directors with prior banking crisis experience on bank outcomes around the … global financial crisis (GFC). Executives and directors with previous experience leading banks through a bank crisis may have … GFC. Controlling for other executive, director, and bank-level characteristics, we examine whether bank performance, risk …

This paper investigates (1) how the composition of executive compensation is related to a bank's incentive to take … severe moral hazard behavior, and (3) how the relation between bank executive compensation and risk taking changes before and … during the recent financial crisis. We find that bank risk measured by the Z-score and the volatility of stock returns …

This paper examines the influence of CEO and CFO age on bank risk-taking. Using data on large U.S. banks between 2006 … and 2018, we document a negative association between CEO age and the bank’s insolvency risk and market-based measures of … risk-taking after controlling for bank size, asset growth, funding and income structures, and various other bank …

We examine the effects of CEO turnover in banks. Incoming bank CEOs face problems from information asymmetry because … banks' operations are opaque and bank risk can change dramatically in a short time. Incoming bank CEOs may therefore change … bank policies to manage their personal risks. Since CEO turnover is usually endogenous, we utilize a setting where CEO …