While various board governance mechanisms, such as board independence, expertise, diversity, and committee structures, play a crucial role in overseeing and guiding bank operations, the extent of their impact on liquidity creation as the preeminent function of the GCC banking sector remains...

In this paper, we investigate the association between outside board directorships and family ownership concentration. Using a sample of 1091 firm-year observations of non-financial publicly listed firms from Gulf Cooperation Countries (GCC) during the 2005 to 2013 period, we find a positive...