We link genetic diversity in the country of origin of the firms' board members with corporate performance via board members' nationality. We hypothesize that our approach captures deep-rooted differences in cultural, institutional, social, psychological, physiological, and other traits that...

This short paper presents the first attempt to examine empirically the relationship between the level of bank liquidity and the structure of the board of directors, in terms of board size and independence. A novel database on these board characteristics is built that includes banks operating in...

We link genetic diversity in the country of origin of the firms' board members with corporate performance via board members' nationality. We hypothesize that our approach captures deep-rooted differences in cultural, institutional, social, psychological, physiological, and other traits that...

We link genetic diversity in the country of origin of the firms' board members with corporate performance via board members' nationality. We hypothesize that our approach captures deep-rooted differences in cultural, institutional, social, psychological, physiological, and other traits that...

This study investigates the relationship between regulations, competition, and risk-taking in the Central and Eastern European banking sectors between 1994 and 2005. We build an empirical model that employs a non-structural measure of competition, various proxies for regulations and both static...

This paper examines the relationship between the regulatory and supervision framework, and the productivity of banks in 22 countries over the period 1999ndash;2009. We follow a semiparametric two-step approach that combines Malmquist index estimates with bootstrap regressions. The results...

This study investigates whether regulations have an independent effect on bank risk-taking or whether their effect is channeled through the market power possessed by banks. Given a well-established set of theoretical priors, the regulations considered are capital requirements, restrictions on...

Purpose – This paper aims to analyze bank efficiency into a number of bank‐specific, industry‐specific and macroeconomic determinants. Design/methodology/approach – The authors follow a semi‐parametric two‐stage methodology, where productive efficiency is derived via a...