banks. We used linear regression on a sample of 194 bank-year observations from 2016 to 2021. The presence of independent … members on boards of directors, and ownership concentration due to family ownership, had positive effects on bank return on …

-mandated committees have highlighted four key deficiencies with bank boards before the crisis: (i) group think among bank board members … significant difference in the proportion of directors has turned over from bank boards since 2007 relative to boards of 1 …,297 firms in other industries; (ii) evidence of greater gender or racial diversity in bank boards or of a greater split between …