Executive Loans, Corporate Governance, and Firm Performance - Evidence from Banks

33 Pages Posted: 4 Aug 2006 Last revised: 17 May 2010

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Yaniv Grinstein

Cornell University - Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management; Reichman University - Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliyah; European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI)

Ajay A. Palvia

Government of the United States of America - Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)

Date Written: May 17, 2010

Abstract

We explore the practice of extending loans to executives in a sample of about 10,000 U.S. commercial banks between 1994 and 2004. The aggregate amount of loans to executives in the sample exceeds $14 billion, with more than two thirds of the banks extending loans to their executives in any given year. We find that the likelihood of extending a loan is higher and the size of the loan is larger in banks with weaker governance structures. We also find that the predicted component of the loan arising from the firms’ weak governance characteristics has a statistically significant negative relationship with subsequent bank operating performance. Our evidence is consistent with the argument that agency conflicts are a driver of executive loans.

Keywords: Executive Loans, Agency Conflicts, Performance, Corporate Governance

JEL Classification: G21, G30, G34

Suggested Citation

Grinstein, Yaniv and Grinstein, Yaniv and Palvia, Ajay A., Executive Loans, Corporate Governance, and Firm Performance - Evidence from Banks (May 17, 2010). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=921484 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.921484

Yaniv Grinstein

Cornell University - Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management ( email )

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Reichman University - Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliyah ( email )

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European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI)

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Belgium

Ajay A. Palvia (Contact Author)

Government of the United States of America - Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) ( email )

550 17th Street NW
Washington, DC 20429
United States

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