This paper investigates the impact of ownership structure and contractual choices on technical efficiency in the French … ownership regime and contractual practices are key determinants of performances.To test this proposition, we use an original … operators depends on the ownership regime and on the type of contract governing their transactions. …

ownership concentration does not significantly affect a bank's profitability, a higher ownership concentration is associated …We compare the performance and risk of a sample of 181 large banks from 15 European countries over the 1999-2004 period … and evaluate the impact of alternative ownership models, together with the degree of ownership concentration, on their …

mechanisms may be misleading. Indeed, we find statistically significant relationships between performance and insider ownership …This paper examines the interrelations among five ownership and board characteristics in a sample of 260 bank and … and managers, are insider ownership, blockholder ownership, the proportion of outside directors, board leadership …

This paper investigates the robustness of the Solvency Capital Requirement (SCR) when a log-normal reference model is …

The advent of the future European prudential framework (Solvency II) and, to a lesser extent, of the phase II of the … mean of a very high order VaR : the solvency capital must to be calibrated to control the ruin if the insurer with a … influence the solvency of the company in order to be able to simulate the ruin of the company and finally to estimate the high …

This study investigates the influence of background diversity of bank board members on performance and risk. Using data …, education level and type) and find significant impacts on bank performance. On the whole, diversity is in general positively … associated with performance except when it relates to ethnicity. It not only reduces performance per se but also increases risk …