This study investigates the influence of background diversity of bank board members on performance and risk. Using data …, education level and type) and find significant impacts on bank performance. On the whole, diversity is in general positively …

syndicated bank loans. We find statistically and economically significant effects of stronger state political ties with the …

In this paper, we analyse whether bank owners or bank managers were the driving force behind the risks incurred in the … manager-controlled banks. The results are robust to controlling for a wide variety of bank specific, country specific …, regulatory and legal variables. Regulation does not seem to mitigate risk taking by bank owners. We find no evidence that profit …

increasing amount when investor is a listed foreign located investment bank and it depend on previous amount already financed …. The strategy of bank seems to be to invest in FTC which provide financial services, but this is no longer true in Emerging … Market suggesting that bank seeks to cooperate investing in complementary activities …

We systematically examine how bank characteristics are related to a bank's financial contagion exposure. Examining … capital requirements, we find evidence that while tier 1 capital requirements are negatively related to a bank's contagion …

. The authors argue that a key factor contributing to this difference is the growing opacity and complexity of bank … challenges posed by the holding company organization of banks, in which two boards of directors—the bank's own board and the … board of the holding company that owns the bank—monitor the bank. This paradigm results in significant confusion about the …