' liabilities, and argue that they are unlikely to improve bank boards' effectiveness or prevent excessive risk-taking. We criticize …, the European Union has engaged in an ambitious overhaul of banking regulation. One of its centerpieces, the 2013 Fourth … banks. We focus on the provisions that are aimed at reshaping bank boards' composition, functioning, and their members …

India that has both bank groups. Covering a ten-year period from 2003 to 2012 that witnessed a large number of governance … CEO duality is high. We find that a longer CEO tenure has significant positive effects on bank outcomes with these effects …

We develop a theory of bank board risk committees. With this theory, such committees are valuable even though there is … no expectation that bank risk is lower if the bank has a well-functioning risk committee. As predicted by our theory (1 …) many large and complex banks voluntarily chose to have a risk committee before the Dodd-Frank Act forced bank holding …

Improving the regulation of banks has been at the centre of economic policy actions since the outbreak of the global … banks by setting qualification standards for banks’ non-executive directors. To explore the rationale of such a regulation …. Furthermore, some of these fi ndings strongly depend on the bank’s legal form, its size and business model, suggesting that both …

characteristics (size, composition and functioning of the board) and analyze their impacts on bank performance and bank asset quality … positive impacts on both bank performance and asset quality while bank size has a significantly negative impact on bank … performance. We find new evidence that the degree of bank boards' political connection is negatively correlated with bank …

ap- point independent directors on the board of an assisted bank that missed six dividend payments to the Treasury … payments exhibits a sharp discontinuity at five. Director appointments by the Treasury led to improved bank performance, lower …