This paper examines the trends and endogenous formation of bank board structure (size, independence, CEO duality and gender diversity) for a sample of 212 bank holding companies from 1997 to 2004. Overall, the results show that the costs and benefits of boards monitoring and advising roles could...

We investigate the effect of managerial incentives and market power on bank risk‐taking for a sample of 212 large US bank holding companies over 1997‐2004 (i.e. 1,534 observations). Bank managers have incentives to prefer less risk while bank shareholders have preference for ‘excessive’...

We investigate the effect of managerial incentives and market power on bank risk-taking for a sample of 212 large US bank holding companies over 1997-2004 (i.e. 1,534 observations). Bank managers have incentives to prefer less risk while bank shareholders have preference for ‘excessive’...