The impact of board characteristics and CEO power on banks’ risk-taking: stable versus crisis periods

ABSTRACT: We examine the impact of board structure, CEO power and other bank-specific factors on bank risk-taking for a sample of 72 publicly listed European banks in both stable and crisis periods. Using a simultaneous equations approach, our main findings indicate that the proportion of independent directors, the board size, and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) power affected bank risk-taking negatively during the recent financial crisis. On the contrary, institutional shareholder ownership and the presence of an ex-CEO as Chairman influenced bank risk-taking positively. Additionally, we separately analyse stable and crisis periods and observe that in the pre-crisis period only board independence and institutional ownership keep the same impact on risk while CEO power has no influence and the existen

SUBMITTER: Fernandes C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7993444 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature