actual observation of tail risk events. Interestingly, we find that estimated tail risk exposures for U.S. Bank Holding …

. Procyclicality in bank lending may be magnified when banks' loan loss provisioning is backward looking given the increase in loan …

Using and international sample of commercial banks over the period 1996-2006, our study analyzes if bank's specific … as both monitor and advisor. Results show that there is no optimal board for every bank but it depends on several … variables such as the bank's size, the ownership concentration, the growth opportunities and the monitoring power of the country …