financial institutions. First, we establish that age, gender, and education jointly affect the variability of bank performance … ; executives ; risk taking ; age ; gender ; education …. Exploiting a unique dataset, we show how age, gender, and education composition of executive teams affect risk taking of …

This paper examines the impact of bank heterogeneity on the assessment of systemic risk in the context of the German … banking sector. Precisely, it is questioned whether currently employed systemic risk indicators are able to account for banks …' heterogeneity and to signal systemic risk reliably regardless of different bank types’ individual characteristics. For the …

Parliament) and aristocratic titles (e.g., lords)--on the boards of directors of English and Welsh banks from 1879 - 1909 to … investigate whether the appointment of well-connected directors enhanced equity value for bank shareholders. Our analysis of panel … data shows that the appointment of connected directors did not increase the rate of return on bank equity. In fact, we find …

The moral hazard incentives of the bank safety net predict that distressed banks take on more risk and higher leverage … include financial crises and are subject to different regulatory regimes (1985–1994, 2005–2014). We find that distressed banks …, moral hazard incentives dominate distressed bank leverage and risk-taking policies …

of risk preferences across investors. Estimation results provide no evidence of gender differences in investors' risk … preferred investment duration, purpose of investment project and borrowers' age. -- Gender ; investment choice ; risk …This study investigates the role of gender in financial risk-taking. Specifically, I ask whether female investors tend …