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Does the impact of board independence on large bank risks change after the global financial crisis?

Vallascas, Francesco; Mollah, Sabur; Keasey, Kevin

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Sabur Mollah

Kevin Keasey



Abstract

The view that the independent directors of large banks should contribute to safeguarding the interests of bank creditors and taxpayers, by exercising a stringent risk oversight of bank executives, has gained ground in the aftermath of the 2007–2009 crisis. Using a cross-country sample of large banks for the period 2004–2014, we show that post 2009 an increase in board independence leads to more prudent bank risk-taking compared to the rest of the sample period. This effect materializes via independent boards favoring increases in bank capitalization and decreases in bank portfolio risk after the global crisis. Additional analyses demonstrate, however, that these results do not hold for all large banks in our sample but are confined to the group of banks benefiting from a government bailout during the crisis. In most large international banks board independence does not contribute to safeguarding the interests of bank creditors and taxpayers by constraining bank risk-taking.

Citation

Vallascas, F., Mollah, S., & Keasey, K. (2017). Does the impact of board independence on large bank risks change after the global financial crisis?. Journal of Corporate Finance, 44, 149-166. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcorpfin.2017.03.011

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Mar 28, 2017
Online Publication Date Mar 30, 2017
Publication Date 2017-06
Deposit Date Jul 28, 2020
Publicly Available Date Mar 29, 2024
Journal Journal of Corporate Finance
Print ISSN 0929-1199
Publisher Elsevier
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 44
Pages 149-166
DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcorpfin.2017.03.011
Public URL https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1265387
Related Public URLs http://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/114882/

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