investigate whether the appointment of well-connected directors enhanced equity value for bank shareholders. Our analysis of panel … data shows that the appointment of connected directors did not increase the rate of return on bank equity. In fact, we find … that the appointment of MPs to directorships had negative effects on bank equity returns. Our event-study analysis …

the public, long-term systemic risk among banks tends to increase. From the dynamic perspective, bank penalties represent … long-term. In this respect, bank penalties resemble still waters that run deep. In contrast, a settlement with regulatory …

rate of growth of capital asset or income whether source of borrowing is bank or money lender. This is then formalized in a …

survival of top executives (Presidents, CEOs and General Managers) to bank performance and the manager's local connections …, controlling for (observable and unobservable) bank and manager characteristics by exploiting longitudinal information on bank …-manager appointments. We measure the extent? of managers' local connections by the distance between the province of the bank's headquarters …

motivators that derive their value from such social concerns. Panel data from the call center of a large international bank allow …

volatility of growth and profitability are bank-size dependent, and (iii) the relationship between growth and profitability of a … bank. Using a dynamic panel model estimated by GMM for a mixed sample of more than 1500 banks from 65 countries, we find no … evidence of persistence in bank growth. However, our findings suggest significant persistence in bank profitability. Moreover …

This study is an empirical investigation of theoretical predictions concerning the impact of bank competition on bank … banking increases, the loan-to-asset ratio will rise (under reasonable assumptions), but the probability of bank failure can … either increase or decrease. However, the probability of bank failure will fall if and only if borrowers' response to take on …

We model EU countries' bank ratings using financial variables and allowing for intercept and slope heterogeneity. Our …