debt holders, who prefer less risky investment. Research on banking sector finds that this alignment of interest makes bank …

This paper focuses on the effects of corporate governance on bank performance during the financial crisis of 2008 … of corporate governance on bank performance are mixed. Although the results suggest that banks with stronger corporate …, indicating that good governance may have mitigated the adverse influence of the crisis on bank credibility …

show that CEO power underscores the absence or lack of gender composition of bank boards and constrains independent … the CEO power effect on bank board structure, such that the actual sign of the marginal effect of CEO power on bank board … antecedent of bank corporate governance (i.e. board structure) by providing an understanding of the implications of social …

Though overall bank performance from July 2007 to December 2008 was the worst since the Great Depression, there is …, except that large banks from countries with more restrictions on bank activities performed better and decreased loans less …. Our evidence poses a substantial challenge to those who argue that poor bank governance was a major cause of the crisis …

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 …

to bank profitability in France …

performance even in industrial countries. Finally, it is apparent that firms that rely on bank financing suffer more from … deteriorating stock price performance. Similar to results of existing studies, the results of this study suggest that bank …

banks “follow” managers' job changes and offer loan contracts with preferential terms to their new firms …

We present a model where firms compete for scarce managerial talent ("alpha") and managers are risk-averse. When … managers cannot move across firms after being hired, employers learn about their talent, allocate them efficiently to projects … and provide insurance to low-quality managers. When instead managers can move across firms, firm-level coinsurance is no …