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We study the impact of a law, which required the increase of the proportion of women on boards of listed companies to at least one third. We look at its impact on listed banks, but also test whether it led to spillovers into non-listed banks belonging to listed groups or along other board...
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This paper examines the issue of board diversity and the role of women in the finance industry. Estimation of panel data regressions for a sample of all financial institutions in Canada and the US over the period 2008-2019 identified some qualitative and quantitative factors that allowed the...
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Board governance is an important aspect of internal bank governance. We conduct an empirical study on 100 banks in … China for the period from 2004 to 2017 using a time-varying growth bank shareholder network to investigate the relationship … and mechanism between bank shareholder network and board governance. The bank shareholder network is found to have a …
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Boards of directors are intellectually interesting; the literature on boards has academic impact and there is substantial scope for this literature to have policy impact. I illustrate these points by combining a select review of the literature with evidence from a variety of data sets. Boards...
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This paper discusses how bank governance has evolved in academic research and critically discusses the evolution of its … concepts, research topics, and research scope in the literature. This paper differs from other literature reviews of the bank …'s corporate governance in two main points. First, we only survey the board governance to highlight a specific aspect of the bank …
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board meeting and bank performance. Our result suggests that fewer board meeting enhances the shareholder value of Banks in …
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public interest in bank stability via an increased role for bank supervisors in the selection and monitoring of bank … directors and significant bank executives, and at an increased role for long-term creditors, in particular bondholders. The …
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Failures in governance, especially concerning boards, have been blamed for the 2007-2008 financial crisis. The increased public scrutiny regarding the actions and role of the board of directors in banks, following the crisis, inspires to examine whether and to what extent do board's...
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This paper examines the association between board characteristics and the ethical reputation of financial institutions. Given the pivotal governance role of the board of directors and the value-relevance of ethical corporate behavior, we postulate a positive relationship between ethical...
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characteristics (size, composition and functioning of the board) and analyze their impacts on bank performance and bank asset quality … positive impacts on both bank performance and asset quality while bank size has a significantly negative impact on bank … performance. We find new evidence that the degree of bank boards' political connection is negatively correlated with bank …
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