Who Disciplines Bank Managers?

46 Pages Posted: 5 Jan 2010

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Martin Čihák

International Monetary Fund (IMF); World Bank

Andrea Michaela Maechler

International Monetary Fund (IMF)

Klaus Schaeck

University of Bristol

Stéphanie Marie Stolz

affiliation not provided to SSRN

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Date Written: December 2009

Abstract

We bring to bear a hand-collected dataset of executive turnovers in U.S. banks to test the efficacy of market discipline in a 'laboratory setting' by analyzing banks that are less likely to be subject to government support. Specifically, we focus on a new face of market discipline: Stakeholders' ability to fire an executive. Using conditional logit regressions to examine the roles of debtholders, shareholders, and regulators in removing executives, we present novel evidence that executives are more likely to be dismissed if their bank is risky, incurs losses, cuts dividends, has a high charter value, and holds high levels of subordinated debt. We only find limited evidence that forced turnovers improve bank performance.

Keywords: Bank soundness, Bank supervision, Banks, Capital markets, Corporate governance, Data analysis, Economic models, Performance indicators, Personnel, Risk management, United States

Suggested Citation

Cihak, Martin and Cihak, Martin and Maechler, Andrea Michaela and Schaeck, Klaus and Stolz, Stéphanie Marie, Who Disciplines Bank Managers? (December 2009). IMF Working Paper No. 09/272, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1531505

Martin Cihak

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Andrea Michaela Maechler (Contact Author)

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Klaus Schaeck

University of Bristol ( email )

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Stéphanie Marie Stolz

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