This study examined the influence of gender diversity on capital structure decisions among Ethiopian banks from 2010 to 2022. Clarifying the relationships between board composition and strategic financing choices carries academic and practical significance. Research questions focused on whether...

The present paper addresses the case study of a financial institution, the Kendallville Bank, developed by The Anti-Fraud Collaboration. The constituents of the Collaboration are the Center for Audit Quality, Financial Executives International, the National Association of Corporate Directors,...

This study aims to analyze the influence of audit committee characteristics and intellectual capital performance on intellectual capital disclosure. Characteristics of the audit used in this research are the size of the audit committee, the Number of audit committee meetings, and the financial...

This paper is the first to empirically study the effects of different types of corporate culture on the risk-taking behavior of European banks. Based on a text analysis approach following the competing values framework, we analyze a hand-collected sample of 167 European banks from 2005 to 2015....

This study examines the relationship between corporate philanthropy (CP) and firm access to bank loans using a sample of listed Chinese companies. We find a positive association between CP and access to bank loans, suggesting that charitable contributions provide firms with an advantage in...

This is an empirical study of the relationship between Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), financial performance and risk at U.S. banks from 1998-2010. The results are striking. First, there is a positive relationship between CSR and both operating performance and firm value. This result is...

This study analyzes the effect that banks' investments in corporate social responsibility (CSR) have on bank performance. I find that banks' investments in CSR have a positive impact on financial performance, measured in terms of both accounting performance and stock market value. However, not...

The aim of the paper is to reveal how corporate social performance (CSP) affects market value and earnings capabilities of companies from banking industry: Banking Services and Investment Banking & Investment Services sub-industries in particular. For Banking Services, the research was extended...

This paper examines the effect of executive board gender diversity on the relationship between economic policy uncertainty (EPU) and bank liquidity hoarding (LH). We focus on the Russian banking sector, which, relative to most of the world, has a high share of women on bank executive boards....

This study examines the implications of CEO power on the board structure of banks in the Ghanaian banking industry. Using a unique hand-collected dataset in respect of 21 commercial banks in Ghana for the 2009 – 2017 periods, the results show that CEO power underscores the absence or lack of...