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 …

to abandon the industry. Banks indemnified executives sufficiently for the shock to retain them by raising fixed and …We study if the regulation of bank executive compensation has unintended consequences. Based on novel data on CEO and … non-CEO executives in EU banking, we show that capping the variable-to-fixed compensation ratio did not induce executives …