shareholders and other stakeholders of the way in which they are run. The problem of bank governance stems from the way in which … banks are financed and regulated, from the externalities bank failures produce, and from the nature of their assets. In the … their activities, meaning that what maximized bank shareholders' returns would also be in the interests of society …

This paper investigates the effects of ownership patterns on bank cost and profit efficiencies taking a sample of 607 … from bank-level inefficiency but also from differences related to other bank- and country-specific factors. Specifically …

quantify the effect of favoritism. We find that firms with prior lending relationships or personal connections to bank … favoritism in bank lending …

This paper examines the impact of bank opacity on European financial stability. Based on a panel dataset of capital … market-oriented European banks covering the period 2002-2018, it can be shown that bank opacity has a significant influence … mitigation of bank opacity and reducing systemic risk. Both the risk reporting in accordance with IFRS 7 and the measures …

ownership structure and bank risk-taking behavior is correlated with the characteristics of individual banks in terms of … quantile regression. First, state ownership and foreign ownership affect bank risk-taking positively in high-risk banks while … distributions of bank risk. These findings suggest that appropriate ownership structure can constrain bank risk-taking activities in …

the CPP is an influential event in the history of U.S. bank SEOs during this period. Controlling for economic and … new evidence on the realized consequences of the CPP for bank SEOs. Tests suggest the CPP's indirect costs of restrictions …

We assess the quantitative effects of the recent proposal for more robust bank capital adequacy (Admati and Hellwig …