Commercial banker-directors (CBDs) bring both financial expertise in risk management and conflicts of interest between shareholders and debtholders. The burgeoning literature on stock price crash risk generates important questions of whether CBDs reduce crash risk. Using BoardEx data from 1999...

Proper Corporate Governance and specifically Risk Governance of banks at board level is key for a sound and robust banking sector, which based on the important function of banks as intermediaries is also relevant for the overall economy. According to supranational institutions as well as...

The aim of this paper is to analyze the correlation between risk governance and bank performance while taking into consideration the influence of board expertise. The study argues that the connection between risk governance and performance depends on the level of expertise among board members...

The main objective of this research is to analyse the relationship between the board of director' structure of the banks from the Romanian bank sector, the capital demands and the risk management in what concerns these relationships. Regarding the structure of the board of directors, their size...