the possible repercussions of these on the performance of banks can be avoided only by implementing a solid system of … governance. The main purpose of this article is to determine the impact of governance on the performance of banks, through an … importance incites governments to insure the stability and the good performance of their banking systems. Accordingly, several …

Shiwakoti et al. (2008) concluded that four of the largest UK mutual societies which converted to listed bank status in … after conversion. All four converting societies have since been subject to ownership change, suggesting that this out-performance … leave unanswered important questions, such as how to measure ‘superior’ performance and the appropriate time frame over …

measure, enriched with a credit-score-index estimated ad hoc on a representative sample of confidential local bank ratings. A …

performance. Using a large sample of European listed firms in the period from 2003 to 2011 and system GMM we find a significant … compensation effect on corporate firm performance for the initial negative effect of horizontal multiple directorships by product … mechanism to increase firm performance and thus assure competitive advantages. By contrast, linkages between up- and downstream …

Clearly, a new agenda is emerging for private international banks. Political issues such as human rights seem to be a … current concern. But what about democracy? What about political regimes? Are they taken into account by private banks when … they decide whether to invest in a country? Put another way, do private banks have democratic political preferences? In …

This paper analyses the effects of concentration on profitability in the US banking sector from 1994-2005, using bank … relationship between concentration and profitability. Strong support is found for the Structure-Conduct-Performance hypothesis, as … concentration and profitability even when the largest banks are excluded from the sample, suggesting that the relationship between …