This paper examines how corporate governance and executive compensation affect bank capitalization strategies for an … to give rise to lower bank capitalization. Boards of intermediate size, separation of the CEO and chairman roles, and an … absence of anti-takeover provisions, in particular, lead to low bank capitalization. However, executive options and stock …

This paper aims to examine the underlying causes of the sharp reduction in bank lending, which in turn is highlighting … introduces the paper. Section 2 analyzes some drivers of the bank loans market in the current financial crisis. Section 3 … examines the increasing role of standardized bank lending practices that have enlarged the organizational and strategic …

We examine which traditional asset pricing variables together with bank-specific accounting variables explain the cross …-sectional variation of future bank stock returns, using a firm-level data of eight Asian countries. Our empirical evidence shows that … exchange rate risk, firm size, the book-to-market ratio, and the net income ratio are important in explaining future bank stock …

The authors analyze commercial banks' profitability (return on equity, ROE) at different levels of creditor rights and … an aggregate score of information sharing in terms of credit bureaus. After controlling for bank size and some … macroeconomic variables, the results indicate that profitability is higher and more persistent when creditors are well protected …