, an insight into how the ownership structure of a bank affects investment decisions, performance and ultimately insolvency … risk - the focus of this paper - is crucial. Our results show revenue diversification reduces insolvency risk in banks with … personal wealth. The link identified between ownership concentration and revenue diversification is a novel way of analyzing …

ownership structure and bank risk-taking behavior is correlated with the characteristics of individual banks in terms of … quantile regression. First, state ownership and foreign ownership affect bank risk-taking positively in high-risk banks while … distributions of bank risk. These findings suggest that appropriate ownership structure can constrain bank risk-taking activities in …

determinants include bank-specific characteristics as well as industry-specific and macroeconomic factors, some of which have not … been considered in previous studies. We conclude that the high bank profitability during these years is associated with a …. In addition, higher capital ratios also increase the bank’s return, but only when return on assets and return on equities …

estimation to examine a large sample of banks for a period that includes the recent global crisis and Arab uprising, marked by … MENA economies is vital evidence, at least to a certain extent that bank performance is explained by market concentration … MENA banks. Cost efficiency and bank size have decreased profitability of banks, and banks with foreign ownership are more …

characteristics (size, composition and functioning of the board) and analyze their impacts on bank performance and bank asset quality … positive impacts on both bank performance and asset quality while bank size has a significantly negative impact on bank … performance. We find new evidence that the degree of bank boards' political connection is negatively correlated with bank …

ratio. The results suggest that the reduction in bank ownership enhances the disciplinary role of debt. Finally, firms … achieve better performance improvements when non-Japanese owners replace bank ownership …

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 …

founded between 1994 and 1999. The estimation results indicate that the effect of limited liability depends upon firms … have negative effects and product diversification as well as positive macroeconomic conditions improve firms' financial …