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 risk committee before the Dodd-Frank Act forced bank holding …

, focusing on short-term gains but risking further losses if rates rose. Instead of hedging the market value risk of bank asset … fluctuations. More vulnerable banks were more likely to reclassify. Extending Jiang et al.'s (2023) solvency bank run model, we …