bank managers and regulators in China as well as in other emerging economies …This paper investigates the effects of focus versus diversification on bank performance using data on Chinese banks …

, and provide weak evidence to support their constructive role in improved bank profitability and economic restructure …

This paper analyzes the impact of the internal governance mechanisms on the bank performance of the thirty European …

Using the Japanese bank merger dataset for the 2000s, this paper investigates whether the reduction of the ownership … ratio by the blockholder affects companies' operating performance and bank-firm relationships. In Japan, banks are … prohibited from holding more than 5% of the business company's equity. When two or more banks consolidate, the post-merged bank …

2007-2016. Our findings firstly affirm that bank profitability is negatively affected by the presence of politically … inverted U-shaped relationship between board size and bank profitability, suggesting that a board size beyond 8-9 members … compensation on bank profitability, while also finding a negative impact of frequent board meetings, presence of foreign directors …

financial performance (CSP-CFP) by classifying institutions into clusters based on a type of culture which dominates in a bank … to the type of bank operations as well as the associated culture. This is an important conclusion for investors seeking … to increase value of their holdings and bank management who wants to foster bank’s profitability through CSP …

chairwoman and a higher proportion of women among the members of a bank's board record a higher level of profitability and tend … members of the bank's boards, on average, the higher the bank stability during the financial crisis. Our results also reveal … that the regulatory framework in the host-country affects the relationship between board gender diversity and bank …

show that pay is affected by agency problems but not by bank operating performance. Average pay does not depend on … accounting outcomes at the bank level. By contrast, average pay is positively affected by the presence of a Remuneration … Committee and the proportion of Non-Executives on the Board. These findings indicate that bank pay is determined by agency …

Previous literature has shown mixed results on the role of female participation on bank boards and bank performance …. Applying Instrumental Variables methods to data on approximately 90 U.S. bank holding companies over the 1999-2015 period, we … diversity on boards and various measures of bank performance: female participation has a positive effect once a threshold level …

Sectoral loan concentration is an important factor in bank performance. We develop a measure of sectoral loan … concentration and study how community bank performance and the size-performance relationship vary with loan concentration and … significantly associated with risk of bank failure or acquisition. Results for changes in concentration appear to be driven by the …