Boards of Banks

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Daniel Ferreira

London School of Economics - Department of Finance; European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI); Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)

Tom Kirchmaier

London School of Economics - Centre for Economic Performance; Copenhagen Business School

Daniel Metzger

Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Rotterdam School of Management (RSM); European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI); London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) - Financial Markets Group

Date Written: October 16, 2010

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.

Keywords: Boards, Directors, Bank Governance

JEL Classification: G34

Suggested Citation

Ferreira, Daniel and Kirchmaier, Tom and Metzger, Daniel, Boards of Banks (October 16, 2010). ECGI - Finance Working Paper No. 289/2010, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1620551 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1620551

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