of commercial banks. Then, the Stochastic Frontier Approach (SFA) is used to measure bank competition. In the final step … understanding one of the key areas of bank behavior, namely bank risk taking. We collect data from 2003 to 2007, prior to the …

We examine the relationship between performance of the bank holding company and several board characteristics. We find … that board size, CEO tenure and board tenure enhance bank performance. However, we find no evidence that board structure or … CEO power influences bank performance. More importantly, we show that the effect of board characteristics during the …