ap- point independent directors on the board of an assisted bank that missed six dividend payments to the Treasury … payments exhibits a sharp discontinuity at five. Director appointments by the Treasury led to improved bank performance, lower …

appoint independent directors on the board of an assisted bank that missed six dividend payments to the Treasury - helped … exhibits a sharp discontinuity at five. Director appointments by the Treasury led to improved bank performance, lower CEO pay …

We develop a theory of bank board risk committees. With this theory, such committees are valuable even though there is … no expectation that bank risk is lower if the bank has a well-functioning risk committee. As predicted by our theory (1 …) many large and complex banks voluntarily chose to have a risk committee before the Dodd-Frank Act forced bank holding …

. Furthermore, some of these fi ndings strongly depend on the bank’s legal form, its size and business model, suggesting that both …