This paper finds that shareholder-friendly corporate governance is positively associated with bank insolvency risk, as …-2008 period. Banks are special in that ‘good’ corporate governance increases bank insolvency risk relatively more for banks that … capital ratio. Furthermore, ‘good’ corporate governance is associated with more bank risk taking at times of rapid economic …

This paper examines how corporate governance and executive compensation affect bank capitalization strategies for an … to give rise to lower bank capitalization. Boards of intermediate size, separation of the CEO and chairman roles, and an … absence of anti-takeover provisions, in particular, lead to low bank capitalization. However, executive options and stock …

foreigners. We use a bank-level panel data set spanning all British and foreign banks providing loans within the United Kingdom …," domestic (British) loans of a bank expressed as a fraction of its total loan activity. We also study effective short …

Today’s regulatory rules, especially the easily-manipulated measures of regulatory capital, have led to costly bank … failures. We design a robust regulatory system such that (i) bank losses are credibly borne by the private sector (ii …) systemically important institutions cannot collapse suddenly; (iii) bank investment is counter-cyclical; and (iv) regulatory …

creating counter-cyclical incentives for banks to raise capital, and so encourage bank lending in bad times. They avoid the …