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Bank Governance And Systemic Stability: The "Golden Share" Approach, Saule T. Omarova
Bank Governance And Systemic Stability: The "Golden Share" Approach, Saule T. Omarova
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
The global financial crisis of 2008-2009 has sharply reframed the debate on the role of bank corporate governance as a mechanism of systemic crisis prevention. Among other things, it revealed how often the incentives of bank managers and shareholders to maximize short-term private gains are perfectly aligned as a matter of internal governance, but work directly against the broader public interest in preserving long-term financial stability. This Article accepts the existence of that built-in potential conflict as the critical starting point for answering the central question of post-crisis bank governance: How do we ensure that the board of directors of …