a broad panel of large US bank holding companies over the period 1997–2011, we find that both board size and independent … directors decrease bank performance. Although gender diversity improves bank performance in the pre-Sarbanes–Oxley Act (SOX … other sensitivity checks including alternative proxies for bank performance …

a broad panel of large US bank holding companies over the period 1997–2011, we find that both board size and independent … directors decrease bank performance. Although gender diversity improves bank performance in the pre-Sarbanes–Oxley Act (SOX … other sensitivity checks including alternative proxies for bank performance …

board meeting and bank performance. Our result suggests that fewer board meeting enhances the shareholder value of Banks in …

public interest in bank stability via an increased role for bank supervisors in the selection and monitoring of bank … directors and significant bank executives, and at an increased role for long-term creditors, in particular bondholders. The …

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 …

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 …