This study aims to find out what determinants have the most influence in improving bank operational performance …, which describes the input and outputof the bank’s production activities as an intermediary institution. Profit efficiency … contributes more influence than issuing debt securities.The issuance of bonds is a proxy for bank policy in issuing debt …

Failure in bank corporate governance has been seen as a contributing factor to excessive risk-taking pre-crisis with … managerial incentives on bank crisis performance is scarce. Moreover, bank strategy has not previously been accounted for. Hence …, this paper presents novel findings on drivers for bank risk-taking and crisis performance. Specifically, I find a positive …

to bank profitability in France …

ratio. The results suggest that the reduction in bank ownership enhances the disciplinary role of debt. Finally, firms … achieve better performance improvements when non-Japanese owners replace bank ownership …

period 1995-2007. In our model we used a combination of bank-based and industry-specific variables. Besides using the GMM … that there are not economies of scale if we consider the size of the bank. The results are robust in a number of methods of …

performance for a sample of European commercial banks. We measure banks' ownership network by the distance between the bank and … diseconomies of diversification vanish the farther is the bank in the pyramid so that the farthest banks enjoy economies of …

We investigate whether factors beyond agency conflict are important in bank governance. Specifically, we examine the … possibility that confusion and overlap between the roles of CEO and Chairman have important effects on bank risk and return. Using … Remuneration Committee and Non-Executive Directors (NEDs) lowers the probability of bank failure, indicating that empowering an …

India that has both bank groups. Covering a ten-year period from 2003 to 2012 that witnessed a large number of governance … CEO duality is high. We find that a longer CEO tenure has significant positive effects on bank outcomes with these effects …

default risk and performance in bank holding companies (BHCs) during the recent credit crisis. Using a sample of 371 BHCs, we … bank in BHCs that paid their CEOs relatively higher inside debt …