We investigate whether factors beyond agency conflict are important in bank governance. Specifically, we examine the … possibility that confusion and overlap between the roles of CEO and Chairman have important effects on bank risk and return. Using … Remuneration Committee and Non-Executive Directors (NEDs) lowers the probability of bank failure, indicating that empowering an …

presence of a chief risk officer (CRO) in a bank's executive board and whether the CRO reports to the CEO or directly to the … board of directors, are associated with a better bank performance during the financial crisis of 2007/2008. We measure bank …

researchers and regulators. Since poor bank governance is seen as a major cause of the recent crisis, a deeper understanding is … needed how banks are governed and how bank governance is associated with performance and risk taking. This report deals with … non-executive bank employees provided by an international consulting company. The results indicate that both aspects of …

We analyze the appointments of outside CEOs of financial and non-financial firms as independent directors on US bank … with less traditional banks and their appointment generates long-term benefits for both the appointing bank and the outside … advising and monitoring quality of bank boards …

managers. Some authors have pointed out that neither the formal governance institutions (i.e. the composition of the different …

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 do not find any reduction in risk-taking at the bank level, one purported aim of the regulation …