survival of top executives (Presidents, CEOs and General Managers) to bank performance and the manager's local connections …, controlling for (observable and unobservable) bank and manager characteristics by exploiting longitudinal information on bank …-manager appointments. We measure the extent? of managers' local connections by the distance between the province of the bank's headquarters …

financial experts on the board promote pro-cyclical bank performance arises due to their shareholder-proximity or rather due to … their findings. For this reason, this study aims to contribute to identify the channels for pro-cyclical bank performance by … not promote pro-cyclical bank performance. Contrary, results show evidence that financial experts on the board of …