Purpose - The need for robust governance standards in financial institutions requires no overemphasis. However …, instances of governance failures have been a recurring global phenomenon. This paper examines the key elements of governance in … financial institutions, evaluates reasons for failures and suggests ways to strengthen governance and prevent such failures …

the implications for financial stability, exploiting a bank-level dataset that covers about 11,000 banks in the U.S. and … Europe during 2001?09. The results show that banks with weaker structural liquidity and higher leverage in the pre …-section, the smaller domestically-oriented banks were relatively more vulnerable to liquidity risk, while the large cross …

. Using data from the syndicated loan market, we exploit variation in banks’ reliance on wholesale funding and their … bank credit. We find that banks with strong balance sheets were better able to maintain lending during the crisis. In … particular, banks that were ex-ante more dependent on market funding and had lower structural liquidity reduced the supply of …

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 … constituents value bank CSR activities. I find that CSR-related value creation is primarily a result of banks' external investments …