This study investigates how the presence of a female chief risk officers (CROs) affects risk-taking practices in banks. We follow the enterprise risk management (ERM) perspective by considering the environment surrounding the CROs (i.e., female representation in both the risk committee and the...

This paper analyzes the effects of parliamentary election cycles on the Turkish banking system. Using annual bank-level data representing all banks in Turkey during 1963-2005, we present evidence of meaningful differences in the structure of bank assets, liabilities and financial performance...

Verflechtungen zwischen Banken und Politikern werden hier am Beispiel ukrainischer Geschäftsbanken analysiert. Es zeigt sich, dass die "Nähe zur Politik" tendenziell einen dämpfenden Effekt auf die Entwicklung der Zinsmargen und einen positiven Effekt auf die Veränderung der...

This study investigates the link between bank lending behavior and country-level instability. Our dynamic model of bank's profit maximization predicts a non-monotonic relationship between bank lending and macroeconomic uncertainty. We test this proposition using a panel of Ukrainian banks over...