We investigate whether bank performance during the recent credit crisis is related to chief executive officer (CEO … larger fraction of compensation in cash bonuses for their CEOs did not perform worse during the crisis. Bank CEOs did not …

Though overall bank performance from July 2007 to December 2008 was the worst since the Great Depression, there is …, except that large banks from countries with more restrictions on bank activities performed better and decreased loans less …. Our evidence poses a substantial challenge to those who argue that poor bank governance was a major cause of the crisis …

We investigate whether bank performance during the credit crisis of 2008 is related to CEOincentives and share …

We investigate whether a bank’s performance during the 1998 crisis, which was viewed at the time as the most dramatic … crisis since the Great Depression, predicts its performance during the recent financial crisis. One hypothesis is that a bank …. Another hypothesis is that a bank’s poor experience in a crisis is tied to aspects of its business model that are persistent …

We provide estimates of holdings of highly rated securitization tranches of U.S. bank holding companies before the … some large banks, they were economically trivial for the typical bank. Banks with high holdings were not riskier before the … tranches were correlated with a bank's securitization activity. Theories unrelated to the securitization activity, such as “bad …

Though overall bank performance from July 2007 to December 2008 was the worst since at least the Great Depression … performance of banks during the credit crisis. More specifically, we investigate whether bank performance is related to bank …-level governance, country-level governance, country-level regulation, and bank balance sheet and profitability characteristics before …