investors (PCBs). This can be attributed to severe political intervention and weak incentives to follow prudent bank management …

We investigate two competing explanations for commercial bank distress during financial crises: liquidity shortages and …

This paper investigates (1) how the composition of executive compensation is related to a bank's incentive to take … severe moral hazard behavior, and (3) how the relation between bank executive compensation and risk taking changes before and … during the recent financial crisis. We find that bank risk measured by the Z-score and the volatility of stock returns …

period 1995-2007. In our model we used a combination of bank-based and industry-specific variables. Besides using the GMM … that there are not economies of scale if we consider the size of the bank. The results are robust in a number of methods of …

dependency between bank leverage and risk. Using a large international sample of banks this paper estimates the short and long … run effects of corporate income taxes (CIT) on bank capital structure and portfolio risk accounting for their simultaneous … in bank leverage and a 2-7 percentage point reduction in the average risk-weight of assets. While the estimated overall …

The roles of bank franchise value (“skin in the game”) and CEO ownership play in determining bank risk are studied for … large United States Bank Holding Companies. We find robust evidence of a U-shaped relationship between bank risk and each of … and CEO ownership increases so too does bank risk. Further, we find that low levels of franchise value combined with high …

Interest rate risk is the exposure of a bank's financial condition to adverse movements in interest rates. Changes in … interest rates affect a bank's earnings by changing its net interest income and also affect the underlying value of the bank … for assessing a bank's interest rate risk exposure: earnings perspective and economic value perspective. Changes in banks …

a broad panel of large US bank holding companies over the period 1997–2011, we find that both board size and independent … directors decrease bank performance. Although gender diversity improves bank performance in the pre-Sarbanes–Oxley Act (SOX … other sensitivity checks including alternative proxies for bank performance …