The paper aims to empirically assess the threshold effect in the large shareholders (LS) and bank performance … large shareholders-bank performance relationship. Additionally, results show that this effect differs across regions. More … specifically, we found that, below the threshold, large shareholders significantly decrease bank performance for the whole sample …

uncertainty (EPU) and bank liquidity hoarding (LH). We focus on the Russian banking sector, which, relative to most of the world …, has a high share of women on bank executive boards. Using the news-based EPU index developed by Baker, Bloom, and Davis … significantly under-represented on bank boards in most countries, these results argue for policies to promote gender diversity of …