a broad panel of large US bank holding companies over the period 1997–2011, we find that both board size and independent … directors decrease bank performance. Although gender diversity improves bank performance in the pre-Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX … other sensitivity checks including alternative proxies for bank performance. …

We empirically analyze the impact of uninsured deposits on a bank’s cost of public debt. Uninsured depositors can exert … market discipline over a bank and potentially reduce its agency cost of debt through informed monitoring. We use a sample of … public bond issues by U.S. bank holding companies from 1994 to 2013 and find statistically strong evidence that banks with …

industry and proposed in the literature. We stress test the economic value of equity of a bank balance sheet based on Call … Report data from a large U.S. bank. We show that our method provides more information about the bank’s exposure to IRR using …

The role of national governance upon bank-level risk in the Asian region is analysed. Improvements in national … governance are risk reducing at the bank level in developed nations in the Asian region, and over the longer run for those … nations affected by the Asian Financial Crisis. A U-shaped relationship between bank risk and bank capital is found, and it is …