lawyers as bank directors. That rise has been precipitous, raising the question of why lawyer-directors now sit on most bank … management and significant increases in bank value. In particular, banks with lawyer-directors assume more risk in ordinary (non … face today. They are also more likely to make complex information, sourced from multiple experts, more accessible to a bank …

This paper assesses how shocks to bank capital may influence a bank's portfolio behaviour using novel evidence from a … UK bank panel data set from a period that pre-dates the recent financial crisis. Focusing on the behaviour of bank loans …, we extract the dynamic response of a bank to innovations in its capital and in its regulatory capital buffer. We find …

level of bank capital is. We use empirical evidence on UK banks to assess costs; we use data from shocks to incomes from a …

This paper assesses how shocks to bank capital may influence a bank's portfolio behaviour using novel evidence from a … UK bank panel data set from a period that pre-dates the recent financial crisis. Focusing on the behaviour of bank loans …, we extract the dynamic response of a bank to innovations in its capital and in its regulatory capital buffer. We find …