The aim of this paper is to examine the executive compensation practices in closely-held financial institutions where the corporate governance conflict lies between the blockholder on one hand and minority shareholders and depositors on the other. We study the determinants of the level of bank's...

This paper provides a two steps investigation of the literature on banking corporate governance. We firstly perform a systematic literature review on the academics papers focused on risk management, compensation and ownership structure of banks. Then we run a meta-analysis investigation over...

This paper provides a systematic literature review on the literature on corporate governance in banks. The review is conducted over academic papers published in the period 1980-2015, identifying 35 years of evolution in the core aspects of banking corporate governance: risk management, ownership...

Over the past two decades, several corporates collapses and scandals led to track down any deficiencies of the traditional corporate governance mechanisms. These collapses and scandals include Enron (2001) and WorldCom (2002) in USA, Vivendi (2001) and Vinci (2006) in France, Parmalat (2003) in...

The aim of this paper is to analyze the combined effect of both internal and external mechanisms on the performance of thirty European banks. This research uses a technique of panel data over the period 2004 to 2009. The results show that banks conduct trade-offs between different governance...

The conventional view is that capital requirements, those intended to reduce bank risks, can have a negative impact on bank lending. This paper reconsiders this view by studying the interaction between capital requirements and corporate governance. Our model highlights how capital requirements...

This study examines the relationship between a board meeting and banks performance in Africa. This paper provides insight on this question after taking into account the endogeneity of the relationship between board meetings and performance. Specifically, we use the GMM technique and a sample of...

This paper investigates the association between board of director (BOD) structures and CEO equity-based compensation (long-term incentive) for commercial banks (conventional and Islamic banks) in MENA countries. Specifically, we take board size and board independence to measure the board...

Boards of directors are intellectually interesting; the literature on boards has academic impact and there is substantial scope for this literature to have policy impact. I illustrate these points by combining a select review of the literature with evidence from a variety of data sets. Boards...