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Why do Bank Boards have Risk Committees?

Stulz, René M.; Tompkins, James G.; Williamson, Rohan; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We develop a theory of bank board risk committees. With this theory, such committees are valuable even though there is no expectation that bank risk is lower if the bank has a well-functioning risk committee. As predicted by our theory (1) many large and complex banks voluntarily chose to have a...

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Do Distressed Banks Really Gamble for Resurrection?

Ben-David, Itzhak - 2019

We explore the actions of financially distressed banks in two distinct periods that include financial crises (1985-1994, 2005-2014) and differ in bank regulations, especially concerning capital requirements and enforcement. In contrast to the widespread belief that distressed banks gamble for...

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Communication within Banking Organizations and Small Business Lending

Levine, Ross - 2019

We investigate how communication within banks affects small business lending. Using travel time between a bank's headquarters and its branches to proxy for the costs of communicating soft information, we exploit shocks to these travel times to evaluate the impact of within bank communication...

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FinTech, BigTech, and the Future of Banks

Stulz, René M. - 2019

banks cannot easily replicate and therefore present a much stronger challenge to established banks in consumer finance and …

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Do Bank Insiders Impede Equity Issuances?

Goetz, Martin - 2020

We evaluate the role of insider ownership in shaping banks' equity issuances in response to the global financial crisis. We construct a unique dataset on the ownership structure of U.S. banks and their equity issuances and discover that greater insider ownership leads to less equity issuances....

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Why Did Some Banks Perform Better During the Credit Crisis? A Cross-Country Study of the Impact of Governance and Regulation

Beltratti, Andrea - 2009

Though overall bank performance from July 2007 to December 2008 was the worst since at least the Great Depression, there is significant variation in the cross-section of stock returns of large banks across the world during that period. We use this variation to evaluate the importance of factors...

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Bank Governance, Regulation, and Risk Taking

Laeven, Luc - 2008

This paper conducts the first empirical assessment of theories concerning relationships among risk taking by banks, their ownership structures, and national bank regulations. We focus on conflicts between bank managers and owners over risk, and show that bank risk taking varies positively with...

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Is There a Diversification Discount in Financial Conglomerates?

Laeven, Luc - 2005

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Governance and Bank Valuation

Caprio, Gerard - 2003

Which public policies and ownership structures enhance the governance of banks? This paper constructs a new database on the ownership of banks internationally and then assesses the ramifications of ownership, shareholder protection laws, and supervisory/regulatory policies on bank valuations....

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Bank Concentration and Crises

Beck, Thorsten - 2003

relationship between the market structure of the banking industry and bank fragility, this paper studies the impact of bank … concentration, bank regulations, and national institutions on the likelihood of suffering a systemic banking crisis. Using data on … 70 countries from 1980 to 1997, we find that crises are less likely in economies with (i) more concentrated banking …

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