gender diversity. At low levels of influence, female directors have no significant impact on firm risk-taking and financial … directors tend to prevent excessive firm risk-taking, leading to increases in profitability and firm value, especially if the …

This paper studies the relationship between corporate governance and the systemic risk of financial institutions … governance mechanisms can explain the cross-sectional variation in systemic risk around the recent financial crisis. Our … structures and boards of directors are associated with higher levels of systemic risk. Thus, our results suggest that good …

risk. I find that banks with higher CSR scores are less risky. This is driven by their external CSR investments and not by …, lower valuations, and greater risk than banks with a more balanced distribution between internal and external CSR … likely to contribute to systemic macroeconomic risk. …

future development of new research paradigms in law and finance. Finally, this Article advocates a more risk-based approach …