This paper studies the impact of female executives on risk-taking using US bank panel data from 2002 to 2010. It provides evidence that female executives reduce risk-taking in banks, but the risk-reduction becomes less effective during crisis years. We also find that a more balanced gender ratio...

If a bank is facing insolvency, it will be tempted to reject good loans and accept bad loans so as to shift risk onto its creditors. We analyze the effectiveness of buying up toxic mortgages in troubled banks, buying preferred stock, and buying common stock. If bailing out banks deemed “too...

Despite syndicated loan accounts for more than 40% of bank commercial loans, little is known about how bank CEO compensation impacts bank syndicated loan contracting. We find that banks with more CEO inside debt have lower non-performance loans and lend to safer borrowers. Using a two-stage...

This paper studies the impact of female executives on the performance and risk taking of US banks. With a sample of US banks from 2002 to 2010, we find that the inclusion of female executives increases bank performance after addressing endogeneity and reverse causality issues. We also provide...