We examine the relationship between performance of the bank holding company and several board characteristics. We find … that board size, CEO tenure and board tenure enhance bank performance. However, we find no evidence that board structure or … CEO power influences bank performance. More importantly, we show that the effect of board characteristics during the …

bank performance for the case of Greek banks using a variety of econometric methodologies. Exhaustive empirical findings … findings support an inverted U-shaped relation between board size and bank performance and between the proportion of … acquisitions activity, bank size and capital adequacy of each bank. Overall, our results document the positive contribution of the …

-mandated committees have highlighted four key deficiencies with bank boards before the crisis: (i) group think among bank board members … significant difference in the proportion of directors has turned over from bank boards since 2007 relative to boards of 1 …,297 firms in other industries; (ii) evidence of greater gender or racial diversity in bank boards or of a greater split between …