Boards of banks

Ferreira, Daniel, Kirchmaier, Tom and Metzger, Daniel (2011) Boards of banks. Financial Markets Group Discussion Papers (664). Financial Markets Group, The London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.

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Abstract

We show that country characteristics explain most of the cross-sectional variation in bank board independence. In contrast, country characteristics have little explanatory power for the fraction of outside bank directors with experience in the banking industry. Exploiting the time-series dimension of the sample, we show that changes in bank characteristics are not robustly associated with changes in board independence, while changes in board experience are positively related to changes in bank size and negatively related to changes in performance. The evidence suggests that country-specific laws and regulations affect the composition of boards of banks mainly through requirements for director independence.

Item Type:	Monograph (Discussion Paper)
Official URL:	https://www.fmg.ac.uk/
Additional Information:	© 2011 The Authors
Divisions:	Finance
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HC Economic History and Conditions H Social Sciences > HG Finance
JEL classification:	G - Financial Economics > G2 - Financial Institutions and Services > G21 - Banks; Other Depository Institutions; Micro Finance Institutions; Mortgages
Date Deposited:	19 May 2023 09:45
Last Modified:	16 May 2024 12:29
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/119078

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