Using bank board-level data and unique director work experience records from a large sample of publicly-listed U.S. banks, we examine (i) whether cognitively concentrated or diverse board align banks’ risk-taking preferences with those of regulators in terms of capital adequacy, and (ii) the...

The editing of a handbook of research on Global Islamic Finance is more exciting and challenging than ever before. The past three decades have been an eventful one for the proponents of Islamic finance. Islamic Finance has become a buzzword from G20 to World Economic Forum to global and national...