manager-controlled banks. The results are robust to controlling for a wide variety of bank specific, country specific …In this paper, we analyse whether bank owners or bank managers were the driving force behind the risks incurred in the … wake of the financial crisis of 2007/2008. We show that owner controlled banks had higher profits in the years before the …

for stock corporations. Recent empirical evidence, moreover, suggests that bank shareholders pushed for greater risk …-taking and not managers. This contrast with public view that the bank managers are pushed by aggressive remunerations schemes to …

ownership structure of banks. Particular attention is put on current trends in the ownership structure of banks (e. g. sovereign … wealth funds). The paper is based on a new dataset on shareholdings in listed banks in the EU banking sector. The results …

ownership structure of banks. Particular attention is put on current trends in the ownership structure of banks (e. g. sovereign … wealth funds). The paper is based on a new dataset on shareholdings in listed banks in the EU banking sector. The results …

patterns. The paper also suggests an important role for banks in helping predators accumulate, and avoid the disclosure of …

This paper examines the composition of supervisory boards of German banks for a sample of 41 large banks in the period … stakeholders. Most of the non-employee board members are representatives of other banks and industrial companies. The high presence … of former executives and German board members indicates inside control. In banks controlled by other banks or insurance …

We investigate whether ownership concentration influences bank profitability in a developing country context. We focus … on bank ownership concentration measured as the amount of direct equity held by a majority shareholder categorised into …: high ownership concentration, moderate ownership concentration and disperse ownership. We find that banks with high …

The paper investigates the factors crucial in the locational decisions of multinational German banks in selected … variables of macroeconomic and financial sector risk along with measures of bank-client integration and host country market … characteristics. Results indicate that FDI by non-banks exerted a strong pull effect on banking FDI flows, as did highly developed …