This paper investigates the impact of governance and regulation on systemic risk across a sample of banks from 10 Emerging CEE countries during 2005-2012. Overall, our results show that tight internal risk management mechanisms and shareholder-friendly supervisory boards are associated with...

This paper investigates the impact of gender diversity on bank efficiency using a unique hand-collected dataset specific to a sample of 128 commercial banks from Central and Eastern European countries during the period 2005-2012. Robust findings that account for endogeneity indicate that the...

This paper investigates the impact of corporate governance on bank efficiency across a sample of 139 commercial banks from 17 countries of Central and Eastern Europe during the period 2005-2012. The empirical findings indicate that implementing rigorous corporate governance structures is...