adequacy ratio and liquidity ratio. By compiling a complete list of cross-border acquisitions in China's banking sector, we …

We examine the relation between state residual ownership and bank risk-taking for privatized banks from 45 countries …. Applying propensity score matching, we find that privatized banks tend to exhibit higher levels of risk-taking post-privatization …

ownership structure and bank risk-taking behavior is correlated with the characteristics of individual banks in terms of … quantile regression. First, state ownership and foreign ownership affect bank risk-taking positively in high-risk banks while … distributions of bank risk. These findings suggest that appropriate ownership structure can constrain bank risk-taking activities in …

This paper analyzes how ownership concentration and managerial incentives influences bank risk for a large sample of US … positive total effect on bank risk. This is the result of a positive direct effect, which reflects monitoring and opportunistic … shareholder preferences toward risk. Large shareholders reduce bank risk by reducing the sensitivity of CEO wealth to stock …

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 the impact of the interaction of disclosure and ownership structure on bank risk. Using a sample of 209 … by individual bank default risk. Furthermore, a deeper investigation shows that disclosure on income statement, loans …

, an insight into how the ownership structure of a bank affects investment decisions, performance and ultimately insolvency …

, eventually, greater reliance on liquidity support from the European Central Bank …

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 …

This paper investigates (1) how the composition of executive compensation is related to a bank's incentive to take … severe moral hazard behavior, and (3) how the relation between bank executive compensation and risk taking changes before and … during the recent financial crisis. We find that bank risk measured by the Z-score and the volatility of stock returns …