Failure in bank corporate governance has been seen as a contributing factor to excessive risk-taking pre-crisis with … managerial incentives on bank crisis performance is scarce. Moreover, bank strategy has not previously been accounted for. Hence …

. University education enhances efficiency if the manager is running a large bank. Managing director changes are systematically …

owners can increase Chinese bank efficiency. These findings suggest that minority foreign ownership of the big four is likely …

The impact of cross-border bank M&As on bank risk remains an open question. Though geographically diversifying bank M …&As have the potential to reduce the risk of bank insolvency, they also have the potential to increase that risk due to the … increase in risk-taking incentives for bank managers and stockholders following these transactions. This paper empirically …

are required to purchase a distressed bank because of political factors (the government’s role), their performances are at …

We investigate the role of corporate boards in bank loan contracting. We find that when corporate boards are more … other board characteristics influence bank loan prices. However, they do not consistently affect all nonprice loan terms …

Recent cross-country comparisons of bank efficiency have been based on pooled estimates of banks across countries and …