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Corporate Governance, Performance And Risk-Taking In The U.S. Banking Industry, Jennifer Osullivan
Corporate Governance, Performance And Risk-Taking In The U.S. Banking Industry, Jennifer Osullivan
University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
In this dissertation, we first examine the relationship between performance of the bank holding company and several board characteristics. We use five proxies for bank performance including Tobin’s Q, ROA, loan loss reserve ratio, non-performing asset ratio, and net charge-offs ratio. Board characteristic variables we include are board size, proportion of outsiders, CEO power, CEO tenure and board tenure. We find that a large board enhances bank performance, as proxied by Tobin’s Q and loan quality variables. We find no evidence that board structure or CEO power influences firm performance. We see that CEO and board tenure have a positive …